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Re: “Viewing civil unions from the pulpit”
Jesus warns us against idolatry, fornication, and murder...seems like the secular agenda claims all three...unquestioned tolerance is idolatry, fornication is any sex outside marriage (to include all gay etc. sex and this sort of adolescent sex advocated by the morning after pill) and murder, which is what abortion is pure and simple...so Guru and Zen...the final judgment is going to be calling you to repentance and amendment of life big tie...as well as me for my sins.
Posted by
TejonTech
on 05/04/2013 at 2:13 PM
Re: “Manitou eliminates free parking (and the much-beloved battle for it)”
Hey, Hill, do you think gridlock is any way related to only having one lane in each direction instead of two? Think about it.
Posted by
Ben Dover
on 05/04/2013 at 2:03 PM
Re: “Manitou eliminates free parking (and the much-beloved battle for it)”
GOOOOOODD!! It took me 35 minutes to get out of town last Saturday. The tourists are making gridlock with their cars making it impossible to function as a resident. Park your cars in a free spot out of the main area and WALK your fat asses in.
Posted by
hill st casualty
on 05/04/2013 at 1:35 PM
Re: “Manitou eliminates free parking (and the much-beloved battle for it)”
Thanks for the warning, I will probably not bother going there anymore. I used to go during the off season when it wasn't so crowded. Nothing there I want bad enough to pay for parking. Bummer that they have done this. Smarter approach would have been to offer free parking for folks from El Paso and Teller counties and just charge the tourists...
Posted by
Phoenix
on 05/04/2013 at 1:26 PM
Re: “Where tax dollars go, more gun-law debate, and praise for John Morse”
"I am writing to debunk an argument used sometimes against the use of federal tax dollars to provide adequate female health care, such as contraceptive care and abortion, and social justice, such as the right to adopt by non-traditional couples." uhhhm, because it's against the law.
Posted by
Stacy in Woodland Park
on 05/04/2013 at 12:48 PM
Re: “Three artists go intimate in a new photography exhibit at GOCA”
I know this if off topic, but that's an adorable dress in the photo! Any idea where it's from? (Also: thanks for the info about the show; it sounds wonderful)
Posted by
Vienna76
on 05/04/2013 at 12:22 PM
Re: “A 'new' Saigon reopens on the east side”
Probable the best Vietnamese food and menu in the Springs with excellent service and reasonable prices.... We are regulars.
Posted by
djrmddmd
on 05/04/2013 at 11:42 AM
Re: “Viewing civil unions from the pulpit”
Secularism isn't new, TT, it was how our country was originally founded with Seperation of Church and State, so don't try to re-write history. It has only been since the 1980's when the evangical churches started a movement to insert Christian morality into our governmental laws. So why can't each and every person govern themselves instead of having to follow your brand of religion? Just because we don't want it in our governing laws doesn't mean we don't practice morality and personal spirituality in our homes.
From Wikepedia: Seperation of Church and State: Thomas Jefferson:
In English, the exact term is an offshoot of the phrase, "wall of separation between church and state", as written in Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802. In that letter, referencing the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Jefferson writes: "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." Jefferson reflected his frequent speaking theme that the government is not to interfere with religion.[15]
The Bill of Rights was one of the earliest examples in the world of complete religious freedom (adopted in 1791, only preceded by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789) but it was interpreted as establishing a separation of Church and State only after the letter of Jefferson (see section United States for more details). At the time of the passage of the Bill of Rights, many states acted in ways that would now be held unconstitutional, some of them with official state churches. All of the early official state churches were disestablished by 1833.
Posted by
gurudori
on 05/04/2013 at 9:33 AM
Re: “20- and 30-somethings find little hope, hospitality within recent city politics”
Milligan's primary goal is to advance the new world order in her own image without a God to interfere with her reign of political correct totalitarianism...it is to turn Colo Spgs upside down, and that sort of radical transformation will not bring peace and stability, but strive and division.
Posted by
TejonTech
on 05/04/2013 at 6:51 AM
Re: “Viewing civil unions from the pulpit”
Zen...Denver Seminary? That explains why you are an advocate for the new secularism and not the Christianity of the Apostles. Your education is faulty and doesn't serve you well.
The religion of Jesus is one where God's love directs and rules our hearts toward peace now and eternity ultimately.
Your religion of permissiveness and self affirmation is a direct path to pain now and dysfunction in the future...not something a loving God would wish for his children.
God, as scripture says, has a special place for wolves in sheep's clothing like you.
Posted by
TejonTech
on 05/04/2013 at 6:47 AM
Re: “20- and 30-somethings find little hope, hospitality within recent city politics”
If "Milligan is a far left whack job" then how far off the right edge of the map are you? Geez TT .. some days you make Pinochet look like a centrist.
Posted by
Zen
on 05/03/2013 at 11:41 PM
Re: “20- and 30-somethings find little hope, hospitality within recent city politics”
Another 14 jobs and more young people gone. Good job blue hairs. As for Pico, he's a egotistical hack. I used to debate that guy on the Gazette, and he wouldn't know good science from a pile of sh*t. Like most of the council, he's a slave to ideology and blind to on the ground reality.
Posted by
Zen
on 05/03/2013 at 11:33 PM
Re: “Viewing civil unions from the pulpit”
TejonTech, speaking as one with a degree in Religious Studies, who studied theology and ministry at Denver Seminary, and has worked in Protestant and Catholic church and para-church organizations, I can confidently and authoritatively say that you my friend are no Christ follower. You're a Pharisee. And a milk fed one at that. It's time to take back the church from people like you ... people who have overseen the largest single decline in US church attendance in history. If Jesus were to return today, I have zero doubt you'd be first to pick up a hammer and nail. You genuinely have no idea what you do. And for that, I just feel sorry for you. Grow up milk fed ... before it's too late. Good luck with all that self-righteous rage.
Posted by
Zen
on 05/03/2013 at 11:16 PM
Re: “The twisted road from Amendment 2 to 'I do'”
TejonTech it is truly sad to see a person so tied up in knots as you.
Posted by
Zen
on 05/03/2013 at 11:04 PM
Re: “20- and 30-somethings find little hope, hospitality within recent city politics”
One poster wrote, "no one seems to be capable of hiring people who have the spunk, skills, and ideas to stand up and make a difference". There were some of us younger professionals with those traits in the Springs, and we were making a difference until about June 2011 when Mayor Bach took office and starting gutting the community. Our family recently left the Springs and so have a lot of people we know - other 40 and under people like us and even some really successful friends in their 50s and 60s. While it was hard to leave our friends, our home/neighborhood and our jobs, we are glad we did, especially given the recent take over of City Council. Thanks, David for trying to be an entreprenuer with Sun Share - you think the pro-business Reaganonomics-worshipping crowd would have been behind your capitalist efforts. But alas you are not a developer building junk houses/buildings and skirting regulations left and right.
Posted by
MidwesternRealist
on 05/03/2013 at 9:44 PM
Re: “Manitou eliminates free parking (and the much-beloved battle for it)”
Welcome to the progressive world of the uber-anal Mayor Marc Snyder. You thought Marcy Morrison was bad for Manitou, think again. What a dumbass move by the mayor and his brain dead council. Good luck getting any of the Springs locals to visit Manitou in the winter when businesses need them most. What a moron.
Posted by
Ben Dover
on 05/03/2013 at 8:46 PM
Re: “Chris Melcher, Laura Neumann get bonuses”
So there is money when they say "turn out the lights, let the roads rot because we are poor"! I know people who try to earn $25k a year and cannot. $180k a year means you better be doing good work and that kind of pay is thanks enough. $25k extra for doing what you were hired to do is stupidity. Give it back to the taxpayers now please.
Posted by
Robert Wyman
on 05/03/2013 at 8:25 PM
Re: “Fracking opponents try again”
Oil derricks downtown?! Now that would be a sight especially if they were spewing crude everywhere!
But really, these protestors have no clue as to what they are talking about and if they drive to the place of protest then that is a bit contradictory. If they worry about our water it comes from Leadville. There is no ground water near downtown to speak of anyway. Our water is in Rampart Res and those ponds on Pikes Peak. Perhaps they could get the fertilizer at Walmarts parking lots put in better places. That stuff flows with the rain right into Fountain Creek etc.
Posted by
Robert Wyman
on 05/03/2013 at 8:16 PM
Re: “Mikey's Mission”
Mr. Weinstein is a joke and is only doing this to gain popularity in his otherwise useless life. People like this should not even get airtime or allowed to spew his hatred towards the god fearing people of this country. Mr. Weinstein you have the right not to beloeve but I along with millions of others have the right to assemble and profess our religious beliefs. I feel really sorry for you Mr. Weinstein, life is to short to hate and be so up tight. You are probably needing those workouts so you don't blow a blood vessel. May God bless you Mr. Weinstein.
Posted by
Sheri Kirkpatrick
on 05/03/2013 at 8:15 PM
Re: “Manitou eliminates free parking (and the much-beloved battle for it)”
I live in Old Colorado City, and I can tell you with certainty that I won't be visiting Manitou nearly as often, if at all until this ridiculous tax is lifted. Everything that I need is within walking distance from my apartment, and I have no desire to pay the MSPD or the Manitou city council that are of no benefit to the town over which they preside just to visit the penny arcade or the Mariner. This will do nothing but garnish revenue for the local businesses that have given Manitou its only desirable qualities, which the MSPD and city council are working incredibly hard to destroy.