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“By the power vested in the state of Iowa and God, I now declare you legally married,” said the couple’s pastor, Peg Esperanza of the CHS Rainbow Cyber Church.

“What an honor,” Esperanza added. “Amen!” — USA Today

The first same-sex marriage license was issued today in Iowa. While reading the article, I came across this particular sentence and had to do a double take. What? By the power of God, homosexuals are being married? Really? I’m sorry, but that’s something that I cannot say, “amen” to.

Aside from legal issues of gay marriage and rights and what not, how can we say that God would condone a union between man and man or woman and woman? Clearly the Bible shows us that God does NOT condone these things. How can someone marry a homosexual couple in God’s name?

The couple was married by the CHS Rainbow Cyber Church. I looked up their church online and their mission statement reads as: “Our mission is to promote BELIEF in Jesus Christ, to BUILD understanding of God’s love for all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender, through the Holy Spirit, and BRIDGE diverse communities by celebrating our uniqueness.”

I can agree with them for the most part. I do believe that as Christians, we should love homosexuals and any other person as much as we love the members of the Body of Christ. There’s no disagreement there. But then they have sermons posted on their site that advocate that homosexuality is NOT a sin. Well, it IS a sin. I’m not saying that homosexuality is more of sin than any other sin you can think of (both “small” and “big”). Sin is sin, and sin keeps us from God. To marry a sinful couple in God’s name doesn’t work. Our Holy God does not approve of sin.

Homosexuality is just as much as a sin as my own pride, laziness, lust, etc. But as Christians, we need to recognize when we are living in sin and ask for God’s forgiveness and to move away from these sins. It’s sin that keeps us away from God. Once we start to say that certain sins are OK and that God allows them is wrong. I’ll say it again to make myself clear: We should love all people regardless of their sins, just as Jesus would have. However, we cannot allow ourselves to live in our sinful nature and think that it’s OK just because Jesus loves us.

Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. –Romans 6:11-14

If you’re that paranoid about the swine flu, you may want to add them to your Twitter to be updated on the fly.

http://twitter.com/cdcemergency

Sorry for updating every second. I guess this is my way of releasing stress during midterms week. At 6PM PST tomorrow, there will be a special update featuring a celebrity guest. Keep your eyes peeled.

Yes! Finally! I am now one day closer to fulfilling my dream of watching the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy on high definition in one sitting! I say one day closer because this is NOT the extended version of the films. Let me try to pitch an idea to you:

How awesome would it be, to engage in a movie rather than just watch it? With the Lord of the Rings extended version trilogy, you can do JUST THAT. Eat when they eat, drink when they drink, and sleep when they sleep!

So maybe it’s no the greatest idea but once the extended version comes out, I’m going to do it. Who’s with me?! Afterwards, we can do the Star Wars series. Back to back baby.

I leave you with this:

Aragorn: We have time. Every day Frodo moves closer to Mordor.
Gandalf: Do we know that?
Aragorn: What does your heart tell you?
Gandalf: That Frodo is alive. Yes. Yes, he’s alive.

View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map

You can follow this Google Maps page to see a live update of where the H1N1 swine flu virus is spreading. Pink markers are suspected, purple markers are confirmed, deaths lack a dot in the marker, yellow markers are negative.

No need to worry though, seems like our government is saying that it’s a concern, but not a cause for alarm. One tip: don’t go to Mexico.