re: SCOTUS says "No Thanks" to Kim Davis and "Yes" to same sex marriage.

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You’re retarded. The church’s marriage and the state’s marriage are two different things. They aren’t forcing the churches to marry gays

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Always great to start off with an epithet. Nothing you blather about after matters.

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You cite the Bible is no different than if others would cite the Quran, Tanakh, Tao Te Ching, or Bhagavad Gita.

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It is very different, actually. The creator of all things and the source of all goodness, human dignity, and human rights has revealed Himself through the Bible, not those other documents. This is a matter of objective truth, not a mere legal technicality.

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Religion is fine for you, and you are welcome to follow it as you deem appropriate.

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Thank you for the permission

Christianity is more than a personal and private religion, though. It proclaims truth for all men, women, and children. It proclaims the truth about our dignity and rights, being created in the image of God with inherent value, and protected by the King of creation, who will hold all tyrannical governments and leaders accountable for their wickedness. It is the standard for all objective moral truth, which is a guide for citizens.

You speak as if the Christian religion is no different than a child’s make-believe game, and that adults shouldn’t pay any attention to it as far as governance, rights, and morality are concerned. Without the moral law-giver in God, rights and moral actions that we codify in laws would be nothing but the thoughts of men with no basis in reality except by the will of those with the power to create and enforce them.

This goes well beyond mere religion, and speaks to the very foundation of rights, themselves.

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For government, however, it simply is not a factor to be considered regarding the issue of same sex marriage. The Constitution is where we look, and the Constitution provides for equality.

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The Constitution is a document and can be changed. I’m arguing that it ought to be changed. God is the one who grants our rights, not men. A nation that spits in God’s face cannot expect His continued blessing.

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It is very different, actually. The creator of all things and the source of all goodness, human dignity, and human rights has revealed Himself through the Bible, not those other documents. This is a matter of objective truth, not a mere legal technicality.

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I usually ignore you and these threads but this is so great.

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I'm not sure what that means. My main point was we're all committing all kinds of sins. We're all going to perdition.

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It is true that we all are committing all kinds of sins, but it isn’t true that we are all going to perdition. God entered into His own creation, taking on a human nature and fulfilling the requirements of the law for us, and paying the debt of sin that we owe God by Jesus dying on the cross so that we don’t have to pay that debt, ourselves. If you trust in that work of Jesus Christ by faith, you will be forgiven your sins and have everlasting life.

I would argue the opposite. Why should 2 people who hate each other continue to live together because of a legal contract? I have known a few couples that one of the parties could have ended up gravely injured or even dead had they continued to live together. That's how volatile their relationships were.
But, maybe you have been fortunate enough to not know people in marriages like that.

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I usually ignore you and these these threads but this is so great

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What I said is true.

I could defend my statement through critiquing each religion and why their beliefs do not account for our reality while only the God of the Bible can.

The Constitution, absent God, is merely an arbitrary set of opinions.

I am the child of parents who divorced due to my father’s alcoholism and abusiveness. Of course I don’t support people staying in a torturous environment.

My past is an example of one person not valuing his promise to another and more importantly, looking at it as a legal contract that can be broken versus a covenant under God.

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Until it's changed to permit a theocracy, I don't get why you keep repeating yourself.

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I’m not promoting a theocracy. Governments of man can and should work alongside the Church. They are different spheres of authority, but can support one another.

I repeat myself because this is a discussion board and I’m engaging in conversation.

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You're not swaying anybody and are turning people off to the potential of that theocracy, I'd imagine.

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I’ll speak the truth regardless of whether anyone is persuaded by it, just like others here continue to say what they want even if others aren’t persuaded.

Because I’m not promoting a theocracy, I’m not concerned if anyone is being turned off to the idea of one.

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Are there alternate dimensions where we will have everlasting life?

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There is a spiritual realm and the material realm that we inhabit. When our bodies die, our souls are transported to the spiritual realm, existing in either Heaven or Hell.

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Is our consciousness the same thing as our soul?

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We are both body and soul. Our consciousness will continue after our bodies die.

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It "transfers", so to speak, to an alternative universe upon death?

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Yes, a spiritual realm. One day our souls will be united with new bodies and will either be on the new and recreated earth or will be thrown into the lake of fire/Hell.