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Pastors condemn Obama over Gay marriage

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  • Ajit Babu 8 years ago

    Such fools/clowns, called pastors, do not understand the issues in the USA and just talk anyhow about it. Obama does not have much power in the USA like your foolish presidents in Africa do. Again, the USA is a true democracy ...
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  • We the people 8 years ago

    Now they are saying things have changed and you do not want to understand them! If you have problem with gay marriage then you should start questioning the bible after all they brought it to us

  • LARYEAH 8 years ago

    GOD WILL PUNISH YOU, FOOL!

  • OZA 8 years ago

    Please Pastors, I agree with you, but do no exaggerate on what God says! He says "homosexuality" is an abomination. He never said it was "demonic"! I have never seen anywhere in the Bible that God called "adultery" demonic - ...
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  • ATSU, HO 8 years ago

    PASTORS SOMETIMES GET THEMSELVES INTO UNECESSARY CONFRONTATIONS. SPIRITUAL THINGS ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED. EVIL PEOPLE HIDE BEHIND HUMEN RIGHTS TO PROPAGAET THE PLANS OF HELL. THE PASTORS SHOULD EXPECT THE WORLD AND SATAN T ...
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  • Bob 8 years ago

    Yes i agree with you, but we must say the truth, i think we need no more Human right laws anymore

  • mopo 8 years ago

    This group of people (gays) got license to eat shit and they are jubilating. Go on eat shit...don't come closer. Boom..bye..bye

  • Gye Nyame 8 years ago

    Gee, can't they see Mahama over there to reprimand, why Obama many miles away? Didn't Mahama visit with Solomon, the gay activist in New York?

    "I blurbed the book when it was published last July; I hosted a party to celebr ...
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  • g.atto 8 years ago

    You are a fool if not because of human rights your black ass would still be a fucking stinking black slave!
    By the way who are you to decide who gets human rights or not mother fucker! Fucking Ghanaians always hiding behind ...
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  • kwasi 8 years ago

    OBAMA SUPPORT FOR SEX MARRIGE HAVE THE SUPPORT OF ALL THE WORLD. WHY YOU PASTORS COME OUT TELL THE TRUTH YOU ARE ALSO GAYS AND WE KNOW IT

  • TOHUGU 8 years ago

    It is only the perverted and warped minded people like you and those in Western Europe that support Gay marriage. Nincompoop!

  • Nii 8 years ago

    Everythiing that God calls abomination is demonic. Everything against God backed by Satan the head of demonic world. You are a gay you better learn how to be wise

  • We the people 8 years ago

    aboa funu

  • Bob 8 years ago

    Stupid, Bible never endorsed gay or lesbian marriage

  • jerry 8 years ago

    RATHER THEN SPEND TIME INVESTIGATING OTHER PEOPLE BUSNISS WHY NOT GET THE ATTITUE LIVE AND LET LIVE AND STOP HARRASING GAYS AND OR LESBIAN THAT ARE BEING SUPPORTED BY ALMOST THE ENTIRE WORLD NOW

  • Nii 8 years ago

    Arm robery fornication adultery tealing are all the same sin and abomination so why Obama didnt legalise all sins and or abomination but chose only gay?

  • TOHUGU 8 years ago

    Please learn how to spell before spewing out your filthy garbage in the marketplace.Homosexuality is gross abnormality and an affront to God and humanity. You shameless ape!

  • g.atto 8 years ago

    Listen to this idiot! you say homosexuality is an afront to god! what about you calling the guy a shameless ape, is that type of insulting behaviour not an afront to your so called god? fucking hypocrate!

  • TOHUGU 8 years ago

    You ought to be ashamed of yourself calling me an idiot.Just look at yourself and your support for homosexuality in the mirror, are you not ashamed of the fact that most animals even abhor this act? You shameless dragon cum h ...
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  • mopo 8 years ago

    You must be real sick to have someone fuck your SHIT HOLE ...gays are simply foolish...this is not bible matter.

  • NAME1010 8 years ago

    Ajit the decision was handed to Americans by 9 Supreme Court judges and not the elected US CONGRESS

  • USPr 8 years ago

    You don't understand the powers of the us president. He chose the judges and he can have influence on those he chose.

  • Tet 8 years ago

    Do you know how many of the nine supreme Court justices were put there by President Obama?

  • TOHUGU 8 years ago

    He nominated two who were confirmed by the Congress to join the other two democrats who were appointed by President Clinton. Kennedy was the swing voter, whose mentor was a homosexual lawyer.

  • TOHUGU 8 years ago

    I think the right word is underestimate and not undermine.

  • Amega 8 years ago

    The days are drawing nearer and nearer when we shall see how the whites used the bible to fool us. Now see their behaviour and what the bible teaches.

  • Kwasi Agyeman 8 years ago

    THEY HAVE SLID BACK INTO UNBELIEF AND MORE SIN AND THEY FEEL THAT EVERYTHING IS ALLOWABLE.VERY SOON WE WOULD BE HAVING PEDERASTS ASKING FOR THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS TO SEXUALLY ATTACK CHILDREN. WATCH OUT!!!

  • DER-GBAALE 8 years ago

    I am a Pastor of a different denomination and I agree fully with these pastors. You are comparing apples with oranges when you are talking of a huge democracy. Does a huge democracy mean you grant rights and freedoms to the m ...
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  • Close Observer 8 years ago

    GOD BLESS YOU MY BROTHER. DARKNESS CAN NEVER OVERCOME LIGHT. THESE DEMON POSSESSED PEOPLE KNOWS VERY WELL THAT THE BIBLE IS THEIR NUMBER ONE HINDRANCE, AND WILL ATTACK ANY PREACHER WHO DARE SPEAK AGAINST HOMOSEXUALITY TO SIL ...
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  • pablo 8 years ago

    Badu you are a fool for real......where were u when Obama was declared the first gay president...what do u think they where trying to say to people.,?

  • Bob 8 years ago

    Ajit Babu, you are the most fooled human being on earth. Does male animal have sex with other male animal, that is the question? not USA law. You very foolish and blind.

  • ROMANO 8 years ago

    THANK U FOR TAKING UR TIME TO EDUCATE THOSE FAKE PASTORS.

  • TWEAA 8 years ago

    AND THIS SAME BIBLE SPEAKS AGAINST THIS SATANIC ACT YOU CALL GAY. OR WE SHOULD NOW REJECT THE BIBLE THEY BROUGHT...MR 'WE THE PEOPLE'.

  • Close Observer 8 years ago

    What do you call the true democracy? Do the people of America have any hand in the selection of those nine justices? Why was it not thrown to the American people in a referendum, the outcome of which will be the true voice of ...
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  • TOHUGU 8 years ago

    President Obama from the very day he entered into the White House has been actively campaigning for Homosexual Liberties. He personally on two occasions call and congratulated two homosexuals- a football and basketball player ...
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  • KOM 8 years ago

    You talk as though the "homosexual man" does not deserve any rights. That was the lot of the black man before the civil rights legislation thanks to the agitation of many including some white people of goodwill. You are not ...
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  • TOHUGU 8 years ago

    Please you cannot equate perverted lifestyles that are choices made by individuals suffering from mental derangement to a race of people who did not choose their color. Homosexuality is ABNORMAL and ABOMINABLE.Only persons w ...
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  • rikuss1 8 years ago

    You are Right the president is not alone. But lets even go the Bible way, when Israel asked for a king what did God do or said to Samuel? did God the creator of mankind stopped the demand foe a king NO! so what do this Guys e ...
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  • JH. New York 8 years ago

    Ajit Badu,first I have no idea whether you were on top of a mango or at the base of mahogany(odum) tree; that's where some people around the world suspect the African lives in his Country. "Na who,now!" I think you rather do ...
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  • Nana 8 years ago

    That was part of Obama agenda ,he openly declare support for them So they also got the strength To take the case to the Supreme court. Clinton and Bush did not support gay marriage so that did not work for them ,but Obama su ...
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  • Cha 8 years ago

    When will Ghanaians learn the issues and stop talking anyhow.

  • Omanhene (U$A) 8 years ago

    I’m married with children and don't like the idea of "gay marriages", but who the hell am I to tell people what the heck they do in their bedrooms? Like it or not "homosexuality and lesbianism" have been around since the cr ...
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  • Twum Barimah 8 years ago

    Omanhene thank you very much. You have said it all!

  • Nsia 8 years ago

    Our kookoase constitution says "unnatural carnal" knowledge is illegal.Why can"t western countries respect that?

  • kwasisei 8 years ago

    Victorian-era penal codes for modern societies - why are we still using those bigoted laws?

  • kwasisei 8 years ago

    Well-said Omanhene! If pastors can't remove the beams in their eyes ..... we don't need unintelligent men with bibles to teach morality. They're rather preaching hate & panic - men of God indeed!

  • Ateks 8 years ago

    Well said. No more to add.

  • Kojo Bonsu 8 years ago

    Is Isreal cursed? I am asking because they legalized gay marriage long ago. I am a CHRISTIAN. A practicing one and don't compromise my principles in any way. My preceding question is based on the fact that Isreal is one of fo ...
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  • Ama Serwaa 8 years ago

    Jesus said love people as yourself including homosexuals! I'm a heterosexual married woman, I don't understand why homosexuality bothers a lot of people. Please can these pastors explain why they focus solely on homosexuality ...
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  • Bob 8 years ago

    Listen my dear sister, it also include lesbian also, not only gay. To answer you love your neighbor as yourself does not mean love and having sex with woman and woman. It is a SIN. Stop it before God hurt you very seriously.

  • Abu 8 years ago

    Mr. pastor , please chop your home matter after all we will go and beg them for money.

  • Robert 8 years ago

    Start with the ban on voodoos. Its also human right. Why should the pastors not start with that.

  • Bob 8 years ago

    I agree with you, but people that worship vodoo can never endorsed this act my friend.

  • fear woman 8 years ago

    badu u need to read the article very well don't be bias

  • Sam 8 years ago

    please who told u, the whites brought the bible. u don't change n play around dis demonic n slavely tin called gay, u will see your end.

  • Prince Charles 8 years ago

    Has Obama proposed to marry any of these idiots?

  • Abu 8 years ago

    Same sex and wee exist long time in Ghana but our leaders close thier eyes as if they dont know.Blind leading blind hahahah is our leaders. They will walk in darkness and ask loan from U.S.A.

  • Dan, Tema 8 years ago

    The Bible also say thou shall not judge,steal,kill,lie,envy,commit adultrey,bare false witness and all that ,but LOVE thy neighbor as thyself.What are you doing in your life , are you keeping all the commandments? Sin is Sin. ...
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  • Ama U S A 8 years ago

    Of all the Sins you mentioned, tell me those that have been legalized or normalized.
    Don't you get the argument?
    We can't condone sin. Wrong is wrong no matter who says or acts or does it

  • nancy harrison 8 years ago

    A lot of pastors are in that gay life secretly and they preach against pastor eddie long is one of them he slept with teengers and destroy their anus there are many of them hiding behind the bible

  • Kick 8 years ago

    These so called pastors must address the problems in Ghana such as bribery and corruption and contribute to how Ghana can develop mentally and spiritually to say twenty percent of those in the USA. These funny pastors will ce ...
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  • Yaw Mensah 8 years ago

    As rightly pointed out by a few well informed, the issue of gay marriages would be soon a fundamental right just as some of our forefathers we reintegrated into a single human race. People cherry pick the scriptures to pursue ...
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  • Boat 8 years ago

    I have followed the tread of comments and opinions.
    WHY does homosexuality trigger a deep resentment even amongst male and female?
    I do NOT buy the assertion that the-homosexuals- are not interfering with innocent persons ...
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  • Bob 8 years ago

    Funny pastor, because of your law in the USA, pastor are leaving the Pulpit and stop to preach the gospel pf true as ascribe in the Holy Bible ( Aramaic Bible not you american Bible.

  • Bubby 8 years ago

    They should mind their own business. Let people live their lives how they want. This is why I dropped Christianity, too many limits, too many things telling me to be a nasty and hateful person.

  • abai 8 years ago

    Ghanaians pastors listen n listen attentively. It was the nine judges in America's supreme Court out of deliberation came out with that legalization. It was never obama. Again African leaders must be called all sort of names ...
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  • Bob 8 years ago

    Are the nine so call supreme court member gays, if not why they never did that in President Bush time. Ask yourself and are you gay or lesbian. Stop now. God wrath is unbearable.

  • NANA 8 years ago

    THE HOLY BOOK STATES THE CONSEQUENCE FOR SODOMY.THE SAME BIBLE TELLS US THE CONSEQUENCE FOR ADULTERY.
    IN FACT,THE DECALOGUE DOES NOT INCLUDE GAY ACTIVITIES.
    THOSE PRIESTS SHOULD NOT PICK AND CHOOSE.
    WE SHALL ALL BE JUDGED ...
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  • kutsii 8 years ago

    NANA, u are stupid. There is the sin nature, sins, iniquities, transgressions, trespasses, taboos and abominations. They are all sin, but the worst that God detests is abominations.
    And homosexualty is an abominations. Gays ...
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  • Tinsel124 8 years ago

    One needs to understand the role of the judiciary and executive branches before they comment. A little bit of homework would've clearly demonstrated these guys are clueless for blaming Obama. We need to read up, understand wh ...
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  • Bob 8 years ago

    He decided to be a president of USA and voted in power to serve the people of America with Blessing, now it look as if the president has sign USA into the anger and wrath of God, just because of Gay in the judiciary making de ...
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  • Majeed 8 years ago

    when people reject Allah their creator and want to follow their hearts desire this what Will happens. Allah have mercy on us

  • Abuxx 8 years ago

    Regarding to pastor's comments, my question: Is Ghana a Christian Nation or following what the white man brought to us?

  • Yebopower 8 years ago

    Useless pastors.USA operates under separation of powers.Mr Obama is not a judge and cannot btibe judges like in Ghana to make opinion.Moreover, what are you guys doing about gays and lesbisns in Ghana?Ghanaian pastors behsve ...
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  • pablo 8 years ago

    Who said Obama didn't have any say in this....do u not listen when the guy talks?
    The man even had Jay z say he is for homosexuality. .... 43 presidents all white. None of them legalized it. The black man comes in power n h ...
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  • Chrissy 8 years ago

    For crying out loud, if you abhor this behavior, why the need to constantly talk about it? Let America deal with their own problem as long as they don't try to shove it down our throats. Stop talking about it, Ghana has it ow ...
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  • Bob 8 years ago

    We pray for Him president Obama.

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  • Nana 8 years ago

    GOD forbid

  • Me Aning. Toronto 8 years ago

    Supreme court of America made that ruling. Stop blaming President Obama about the gay marriage.

  • GHANABA 8 years ago

    Who wrote the bible and don't forget donations from gay people.

  • Lord 8 years ago

    to all these pastors Obama did not legalized gay marriage.Gay marriage would be legalized even if Obama and the republicans are against it.Becouse of the 14 th amendment no state or party can tell a person who to love. To a ...
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  • Ebenezer Nii Amu First-Quao 8 years ago

    ...he also delivered people possessed by demons and behaving unnaturally. Our pastors must deliver all homosexuals, Obama and America and not just pronounce condemnation. What are they doing with the power Jesus gave them whe ...
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  • Wumbei enoch damba 8 years ago

    Well said keep it up

  • JJ 8 years ago

    Afraid they'll be found out...

  • Kwame USA 8 years ago

    You should condemn your government for not providing reliable electricity to their own citizens.
    My family in Ghana lives close to the US embassy and Ghanians are queued over there everyday by the numbers.
    Stop going to US ...
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  • Boat 8 years ago

    But the fact is that there are people who live on those continents and still oppose the lifestyle of homosexuality. We do not travel on one issue only.

  • NII 8 years ago

    I understand the arguments but I think most advocates forget that there is no scientific explanation for how homosexuality comes about. All the studies I have seen show correlation between homosexuals and a certain part of th ...
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  • Straight & Scared 8 years ago

    & your case is? that the world will be a better place if you can locate & kill all homosexuals? how 'bout those yet to be born? They don't need ur approval to live as human beings, & may not like some things you do? Who's ask ...
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  • nimdee2k 8 years ago

    Only an idiot will compare lgbt to corruption. Corruption is immoral and lgbt is science. Therefore, stop being an idiot and educate yourself.

  • sarfo.sunyani 8 years ago

    We say those are signs of Jesus 2nd coming....why
    Are so worried if US legalize same sex marriage. Get ready for jesuJesus coming. Or we are afraid man

  • Kwame 8 years ago

    Silly Europeans forced down our throats the EPA. Your failing and choked ecomies see Africa as a dumping grounds AMD you even call us EMERGING ECONOMIES. Now you want to tap into not just our raw materials but also, our marke ...
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  • kk 8 years ago

    Guys, Obama governs the country by the constitution of the usa and not with the bible and he sworn to defend the constitution. The constitution regards marriage between two people and that is what the president is doing. if h ...
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  • Kwame USA 8 years ago

    The European and USA embassies should take note of all these people and BAN them from getting Visa's.
    They should stay in Africa and keep mute if they think homosexuality is that bad. No one should allow them to come to the ...
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  • Kwame 8 years ago

    I can't believe Kwame feels he is in Heaven. Many of Africans will never see USA before they die and that will never make them lesser humans. Many Americans have never traveled outside American and that also does not make the ...
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  • Kwadwo Bekoe Boateng 8 years ago

    American politics is not run as Ghanaian politics. The president alone cannot rise up one morning and announce anything to bring it to past. Gay marriage was ruled by the supreme court and not Obama. Ghanaian pastors take wha ...
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  • TINA 8 years ago

    Look you bogos pastors, all you do is to divide families against each other claiming one is a witch just to collect poor peoples' money. You are sinners as hell. Committing adultery and chasing people wives. You better shu ...
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  • Nyorkopio 8 years ago

    The problem with these pastors in this article is that, they do not covet the Rule of Law. The Judicary, a branch of goverment that is unfettered, has ruled that Gay people should be accorded the same rights as anyone else. A ...
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  • TOHUGU 8 years ago

    What do you mean by unfettered? Do you call 4 Republican leaning judges and 4 Democratic leaning judges plus 1 judge whose lawyer mentor is Gay, unfettered? Your knowledge is so shallow and your argument is so convoluted.

  • OBAMA 8 years ago

    You people supporting this useless thing called gay or lesbian are very very stupid people, in fact even animals are very important and useful than you. foolish pagans, ask your grandparents about the story of sodom and gomo ...
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  • rikuss1 8 years ago

    why are these Guy worried? I would like to use this medium to tell the world that the white species of mankind in the USA is going to reduced by the year 3000. why because most of the would be gays and wouldn't like to marry ...
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  • g.atto 8 years ago

    FUCKING GHANAIAN SO CALLED PASTORS, MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS, THE SUPREME COURT OF AMERICA REFLECTS THE WILL OF THE MAJOURITY OF AMERICANS AND AMERICA IS A DEMOCRACY. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE IT DO NOT MARRY A MAN. UNFORTUNAT ...
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  • JH. New York 8 years ago

    People are the same everywhere but do things according to their religious affiliations,Cultural,and Traditional believes.Therefore, what do you mean by "Ghanaians are backward to understand homophobic"
    Ever since you were bo ...
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  • g.atto 8 years ago

    people are borne gay and do not choose to be gay the same way people do not choose the colour of their skin. So being gay can never be wrong. And Ghanaians should understand that not everybody on the planet is religious! than ...
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  • PAMSKAD 8 years ago

    Arm robbery should be legalized then.

  • William K.A.Hanson 8 years ago

    Obama does not set laws in America. It is the congress and if the people do not agree they go to court and supreme court decides the case. I do not agree with supreme court decision but since it is the law of the land I have ...
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  • nimdee2k 8 years ago

    Obama is not the Supreme Court. The decision was made by the US Supreme Court (5-4 Decision).

  • Wanderer 8 years ago

    People don't always understand how to live life in the most fullfilling way. They make mistakes during their search for a perfect life, this is called sin. Sin is when you waste lifetime on useless endeavors. Gay life is wast ...
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  • Dennis Awah 8 years ago

    this christian religion is indeed for slaves and the ignorant. first the ruling in USA has nothing to do with obama, he didnt file the case neither did he make a ruling, as a president he is right to back the ruling as it ens ...
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  • walace 8 years ago

    The bible has no scientific fact in it. Pastors who can't reason. Idiots bcos they are in africa

  • Kwame 8 years ago

    The bible is the source of everything evolving around us. Great nations have been founded on the bible. Nations have originally developed their laws on biblical instructions. Principles of investment stems from the bible. Agr ...
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  • dennis awah 8 years ago

    Kwame prove to us that the bible is the basis of science. how can a book whose authors are unknown, whose authors do not identify themsleves be a scientific book.

    to claim agriculture has its roots in the bible is a lie, ...
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  • TOHUGU 8 years ago

    So your scientific fact is, your father married a man, went to bed with him and gave birth to you. Or maybe your mother married another woman, went to bed with her and gave birth to you.Warped minded pervert!

  • TOHUGU 8 years ago

    So your scientific fact is, your father married a man, went to bed with him and gave birth to you. Or maybe your mother married another woman, went to bed with her and gave birth to you.Warped minded pervert!

  • HE IS INNOCENT 8 years ago

    IT IS THE US SUPREME COURT THAT LEGALIZED SAME SEX MARRIAGE, NOT PRESIDENT OBAMA. WHAT OUR PASTORS DO NOT KNOW IS THAT AMERICAN PRESIDENTS DO NOT EXERCISE UNLIMITED POWERS LIKE GHANAIAN PRESIDENTS DO. IN THE UNITED STATES THE ...
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  • Elika Moses from west Africa Ghana 8 years ago

    This world can't take God for granted .He will surely judge every human actions.If it is in your power to do it God know. God,s judgement is coming upon the head of the wicked.