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Virginia church sign turns heads with its suggestion that seeking equal rights is satanic
With the Supreme Court about to rule on same-sex marriage this month and a white supremacist killing nine members of a historically black congregation this week in Charleston, the country is at a crossroads on major social issues involving equality. So the timing for a sign outside a Virginia church linking Satan and equal rights seems a bit odd.
The sign outside Taylor Road Baptist Church reads, “Remember Satan was the first to demand equal rights.”
When local television WTVR tried to interview church pastor Mel Kunkled, he declined to go on camera. But he told WTVR that the sign doesn’t target any specific group.
The actual Bible passage is the origination story about Satan. It depicts the angel Lucifer trying to take dominion away from God, and as a result being cast down to hell.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/virginia-church-sign-turns-heads-with-its-suggestion-that-seeking-equal-rights-is-satanic/comments/#disqus
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Isaiah 14:12-17New International Version (NIV)
12
How you have fallen from heaven,
morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!
13
You said in your heart,
“I will ascend to the heavens;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.[a]
14
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”
15
But you are brought down to the realm of the dead,
to the depths of the pit.
16
Those who see you stare at you,
they ponder your fate:
“Is this the man who shook the earth
and made kingdoms tremble,
17
the man who made the world a wilderness,
who overthrew its cities
and would not let his captives go home?”
12
How you have fallen from heaven,
morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!
13
You said in your heart,
“I will ascend to the heavens;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.[a]
14
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”
15
But you are brought down to the realm of the dead,
to the depths of the pit.
16
Those who see you stare at you,
they ponder your fate:
“Is this the man who shook the earth
and made kingdoms tremble,
17
the man who made the world a wilderness,
who overthrew its cities
and would not let his captives go home?”
