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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Lawmaker Says God Personally Told Him To Be A 'Watchman' Warning Gay Marriage Is 'Wicked'
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/watch_gop_lawmaker_says_god_personally_told_him_to_be_a_watchman_warning_gay_marriage_is_wickedRepublican State Rep. Mark Pody is battling same-sex marriage in Tennessee. In addition to filing a bill that would, he believes, simply nullify the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision that found same-sex couples do have a right to marry....
"I believe God talks to me in prayer," he told supporters at a Nashville event designed to get his bill nullifying same-sex marriage some attention. God, Pody says, told him "this is your role," to fight marriage equality.
"When this ruling came," Pody told the group, speaking of the Supreme Court's Obergefell decision, "I believe God told me this."...
"I have made thee a watchman under the house of Israel," Pody said, quoting the bible verse God, he claims, personally spoke to him. "Therefore, hear the word at my mouth and give them a warning from me, when I say unto the wicked, 'Thou shall surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require from thine hand.'"
"I believe God talks to me in prayer," he told supporters at a Nashville event designed to get his bill nullifying same-sex marriage some attention. God, Pody says, told him "this is your role," to fight marriage equality.
"When this ruling came," Pody told the group, speaking of the Supreme Court's Obergefell decision, "I believe God told me this."...
"I have made thee a watchman under the house of Israel," Pody said, quoting the bible verse God, he claims, personally spoke to him. "Therefore, hear the word at my mouth and give them a warning from me, when I say unto the wicked, 'Thou shall surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require from thine hand.'"
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GOP Lawmaker Says God Personally Told Him To Be A 'Watchman' Warning Gay Marriage Is 'Wicked' (Original Post)
KamaAina
Dec 2015
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Coventina
(27,195 posts)1. "But his blood will I require from thine hand." IOW: Kill the infidel
Scary stuff!
madaboutharry
(40,231 posts)2. Why does God only talk to extremists and haters?
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)3. Amazing how his Gawd believes exactly the same things he does
It used to be people like him were locked up and medicated, not elected.
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)4. God told me
that he created Mark Pody as an experiment
to see if a mouth would still work without a brain.
Apparently it does.
Response to KamaAina (Original post)
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Javaman
(62,534 posts)6. hearing voices is never a good trait to have in a politician. nt
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)7. It always amazes me how
God still talks in "thees" and "thous". Surely the Lord has learned to speak English the way we do??? Do these Christian-wannabees really think that makes them sound more credible?
randome
(34,845 posts)8. What did he sound like? Did he stutter? Did he have a lisp?
High-pitched or baritone? Lilting or mechanical?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)9. She has a powerful alto voice
Initech
(100,107 posts)10. But who will watch the Watchmen?