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Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (JN 8:32)
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HampsteadPete, Laws against "cruel and unusual punishment" do exist in the U.S. but the death penalty still does exist (and is applied), in most states. Many states like Georgia also still have laws against homosexual actions. Many of the same lawmakers who wrote ordinances against vigilante behaviors (assuming you refer to these in your broad statements) were outspoken opponents of homosexual behaviors as crimes. These laws and rulings inside the U.S. are historic facts. Why shouldn't we have the ongoing liberty to speak our agreement with those laws or to say what we think about any subject at all? Killing the local homosexual and preaching for him or her to repent are different things and I think you know that distinction.
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