I'm reading a lot lately about Ray Boltz's new song, "Don't Tell Me Who To Love" and it's gay agenda. Because I like to check things out for myself, I went to Ray's blog to read what he had to say about the song, and to listen to it myself.
OK, so the song is about gay marriage, LOL. Ray explains that the inspiration for the song was taken from the story of Mildred Jeter (a woman of color) and Richard Loving (a white male) who met during the fifties, fell in love and were married in Washington DC. When they returned to Virginia they were arrested and faced spending a year in prison, because interracial marriage was illegal in that state. In the end, though, he draws a lightly veiled comparision to gay marriage:
Maybe you're in love today and you've been making wedding plans
But there is someone in your way shouting things cause they don't understand
The judge says that's not legal, the preacher calls it a sin
Oh you just remember they were wrong before and they're wrong again
I know that there's a lot of controversy surrounding gay marriage, and while I'm sure this post will open a whole new can of worms, my big question after listening to the song is this:
When did Ray Boltz start writing dance club music?
This new single has a definite pop dance beat, which I guess I don't remember from songs like "Pledge Allegience To The Lamb."
It's actually a nifty, catchy dance song. Millions of kids every day fill their iPods with dance music fraught with lyrics about heterosexual sex, and while Christian parents are cautious about what they let their kids listen to, few are out there on message boards blasting the artists. But I'll go out on a limb and predict that they're going to get themselves all heated up over this song. Not because there was a time in this country when a black woman married to a white man was a crime, but because gay marriage is the Christian cause du jour.
If you want to listen to Ray Boltz's "Don't Tell Me Who To Love," just click the link on the song title.
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Hi there,
Firstly, Tina your a legend. :)
I am not homo sexual, however my old youth leader used to be close friends with a christian man who was homo sexual. He would tell my old youth leader that he hated having feeling towards other men, and wanted to be attracted to Women. To honor God, he decided to stay single all his life as he believed a homo sexual relationship is wrong. As far as i can see this man is honoring God through his choices right??? It seems to me that most people think you "choose to be gay.'. I used to think this also, however after this story, and others i no longer think like this (however ultimately i dont know).
I wondered 'YOUR NAME', if you could answer me this question....what has this man done to be an abomination?
Bless you
Sam
Boy you people just don't get it do you? When your child hangs themselves because you were not tolerate of them, or when your grandchild comes home crying with broken bones because he was or she was called a Fagot, and you just turn your eyes and face GOD!!! Yes Let God heal all, it's people like Ray that has more compassion than any of you, God Loving Hypocrites.
Listen the Bible has said that homosexuality is a sin. The same way fornication is a sin, killing is a sin, and so on. God loves the gay community. He jus doesn't like the sin. I believe someone can be a Christian and gay. The same way i believe someone can be saved and struggle with lying. However i dnt believe that because you struggle with something gives you the right as a Christian to give in to whatever that sin is. God died for the purpose of giving us the victory of death and sin. Whatever sin that we struggle with God can give us the power to overcome this. Oh! And God doesn't love straight ppl more than gay or vice versa. God is the God of all flesh.
Homosexuality is not a choice...if I could be attracted to women and not men...I would be. The greatest challenge all face is not to deal with their sin...but rather to seek the Lord's face...to go into His presence...that He would make it known to us that He is with us in the fire. When, on the cross, He said..."It is finished"...there would be no sin, no earthly or supernatural power in all creation that could take His love away as well as that He could not forgive. We get so caught up with looking at ourselves and what we are going through...seek Him...above all...seek Jesus Christ.
Hello Tina,
You know the Word of God is eternal and in it we read,
Do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked for whatever we sow that so we shall also reap. Your top questions are amusing but misguided and yet another futile attempt to prove the absurdity of homosexaulity as a sin. However, while these levitcal or Mosaic laws have changed a bit, you have to understand that God's moral law has not. This moral law encompasses what is known as iniquity or any sin that is moral in nature such as murder, adultery, fornication, homosexaulity this has never changed. Rememeber the law was given as a school master to lead us to Christ for who can keep the law? No one, except for our Savior Jesus the Christ. Your top 10 questions are good reading but they do nothing to sway us from the moral conviction of what God teaches in His word about that Holy institution we know as marriage. The Bible says to answer a fool according to his folly and it also says that "the fool has said in his heart there is no God." However, it also says that, "For God so loved the world that He gave his ony begotten Son so that whomsoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. Why don't you open up your heart, repent from you sins, and ask Jesus to come into your heart for only then will you understand God's Word and not miscontrue it with silly questions.
May God touch your heart.
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