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		<title>By: KnappAshlee33</title>
		<link>http://www.blogjones.com/WordPress/2006/02/01/starbucks-banned-at-bju/#comment-109241</link>
		<author>KnappAshlee33</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Houses and cars are not very cheap and not everyone is able to buy it. However, <a href="http://lowest-rate-loans.com" rel="nofollow nofollow">loan</a> are created to aid people in such kind of situations.</p>
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		<title>By: Yahoouj</title>
		<link>http://www.blogjones.com/WordPress/2006/02/01/starbucks-banned-at-bju/#comment-105280</link>
		<author>Yahoouj</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Really good work about this website was done. Keep trying more - thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Really good work about this website was done. Keep trying more - thanks!</p>
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		<title>By: Rob</title>
		<link>http://www.blogjones.com/WordPress/2006/02/01/starbucks-banned-at-bju/#comment-104619</link>
		<author>Rob</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Starbucks should be banned from the campus if, for no other reason, than that the coffee is highly-addictive toxin.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Starbucks should be banned from the campus if, for no other reason, than that the coffee is highly-addictive toxin.</p>
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		<title>By: Danuta Engwer</title>
		<link>http://www.blogjones.com/WordPress/2006/02/01/starbucks-banned-at-bju/#comment-103662</link>
		<author>Danuta Engwer</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hardly ever comment on articles, but your blog post urged me to commend your blog. Thank you for the read, I'll make sure to bookmark your site and visit once in awhile. Cheers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hardly ever comment on articles, but your blog post urged me to commend your blog. Thank you for the read, I&#8217;ll make sure to bookmark your site and visit once in awhile. Cheers.</p>
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		<title>By: Leticia</title>
		<link>http://www.blogjones.com/WordPress/2006/02/01/starbucks-banned-at-bju/#comment-87410</link>
		<author>Leticia</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>haha! nice discussion!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>haha! nice discussion!!</p>
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		<title>By: Coffee and Conformity &#124; "One Little Hour"</title>
		<link>http://www.blogjones.com/WordPress/2006/02/01/starbucks-banned-at-bju/#comment-83268</link>
		<author>Coffee and Conformity &#124; "One Little Hour"</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] not an advocacy group). I wonder why Starbucks then reacted in the opposite manner when Bob Jones asked for the same consideration the following [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] not an advocacy group). I wonder why Starbucks then reacted in the opposite manner when Bob Jones asked for the same consideration the following [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Nicole</title>
		<link>http://www.blogjones.com/WordPress/2006/02/01/starbucks-banned-at-bju/#comment-22040</link>
		<author>Nicole</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Those are God's words, not mine.  Who could tell us better how we are supposed to live other than God - He who created all living things?!  I don't think we are to judge one another.  Because sin is sin, period.  So, who am I, a sinner saved by the wonderful grace of God, to judge another sinner?  Who am I to say that you are a sinner?  Stop looking at the speck in your brother's eye and pull the plank out of your own eye man!  It's the Liberalist American Chistians that make the people so fearful of God.  
  " You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgement on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condeming yourself, because you who pass judgement do the same things." 
                                                                                  Romans 2:1
  Thoughts of sin, to God, is sin.  Many people think they arent good enough to be used by God, but we are incomparable by the worlds description, not God's. "God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong." 1Corinthians 1:27 - Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those are God&#8217;s words, not mine.  Who could tell us better how we are supposed to live other than God - He who created all living things?!  I don&#8217;t think we are to judge one another.  Because sin is sin, period.  So, who am I, a sinner saved by the wonderful grace of God, to judge another sinner?  Who am I to say that you are a sinner?  Stop looking at the speck in your brother&#8217;s eye and pull the plank out of your own eye man!  It&#8217;s the Liberalist American Chistians that make the people so fearful of God.<br />
  &#8221; You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgement on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condeming yourself, because you who pass judgement do the same things.&#8221;<br />
                                                                                  Romans 2:1<br />
  Thoughts of sin, to God, is sin.  Many people think they arent good enough to be used by God, but we are incomparable by the worlds description, not God&#8217;s. &#8220;God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.&#8221; 1Corinthians 1:27 - Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord!</p>
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		<title>By: Nicole</title>
		<link>http://www.blogjones.com/WordPress/2006/02/01/starbucks-banned-at-bju/#comment-22039</link>
		<author>Nicole</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I became very interested in this subject while I was on a Women's Retreat this summer.  I have researched this subject in depth.  However, the fact remains - homosexuality is against God's Word!  Homosexuals have sinned, and that is what it is - to God.  The world makes one sin worse than the other, but not God.  God comdemns the "PRACTICE" of homosexuality, not the person.  God is full of grace and mercy.  
     Since everybody else is using scripture to back up their replys - I will do the same because it is not what I am saying - it's what God - the Creator of all things - even the things scientists can and CAN'T explain.    
       "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is    detestable."                                           Leviticus 18:22

       " The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessnessand wickedness of menwho supress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.  For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood by what has been made, so that men are without excuse.  For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.  Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the Immortal God for images made to look like mortal manand birds and animals and reptiles.  Therefore, God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.  They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen.  Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.  Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.  In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.  Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."  Romans 1:18-27</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I became very interested in this subject while I was on a Women&#8217;s Retreat this summer.  I have researched this subject in depth.  However, the fact remains - homosexuality is against God&#8217;s Word!  Homosexuals have sinned, and that is what it is - to God.  The world makes one sin worse than the other, but not God.  God comdemns the &#8220;PRACTICE&#8221; of homosexuality, not the person.  God is full of grace and mercy.<br />
     Since everybody else is using scripture to back up their replys - I will do the same because it is not what I am saying - it&#8217;s what God - the Creator of all things - even the things scientists can and CAN&#8217;T explain.<br />
       &#8220;Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is    detestable.&#8221;                                           Leviticus 18:22</p>
<p>       &#8221; The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessnessand wickedness of menwho supress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.  For since the creation of the world God&#8217;s invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood by what has been made, so that men are without excuse.  For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.  Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the Immortal God for images made to look like mortal manand birds and animals and reptiles.  Therefore, God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.  They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen.  Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.  Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.  In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.  Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.&#8221;  Romans 1:18-27</p>
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		<title>By: Barbara H.</title>
		<link>http://www.blogjones.com/WordPress/2006/02/01/starbucks-banned-at-bju/#comment-5891</link>
		<author>Barbara H.</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kris, the fence hardly keeps people out when there are several openings to it. And a lot of schools have fences. Converse College here in Spartanburg does, and nobody thinks twice about it -- there's no cause for suspicion about BJ due to its having a fence.

And what BJ is doing with Starbucks is not a double standard. They are not out to close or protest every business that has anything to do with a gay lifestyle, but they don't want to promote it on campus. 

God does love you for who you are -- Romans 5:8 says, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." He loves all of us even when we were in sin, loved us so much to give His Son to save us from that sin. He doesn't make mistakes, but mankind has chosen to go its own way (which is the essence of sin) rather than obey Him. Yet He still reaches out to us in love. It is actually the loving thing to do to let people know that the Bible calls homosexuality a sin so that they can turn to God for forgiveness and deliverance from it.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kris, the fence hardly keeps people out when there are several openings to it. And a lot of schools have fences. Converse College here in Spartanburg does, and nobody thinks twice about it &#8212; there&#8217;s no cause for suspicion about BJ due to its having a fence.</p>
<p>And what BJ is doing with Starbucks is not a double standard. They are not out to close or protest every business that has anything to do with a gay lifestyle, but they don&#8217;t want to promote it on campus. </p>
<p>God does love you for who you are &#8212; Romans 5:8 says, &#8220;But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.&#8221; He loves all of us even when we were in sin, loved us so much to give His Son to save us from that sin. He doesn&#8217;t make mistakes, but mankind has chosen to go its own way (which is the essence of sin) rather than obey Him. Yet He still reaches out to us in love. It is actually the loving thing to do to let people know that the Bible calls homosexuality a sin so that they can turn to God for forgiveness and deliverance from it.</p>
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		<title>By: Blog Jones</title>
		<link>http://www.blogjones.com/WordPress/2006/02/01/starbucks-banned-at-bju/#comment-5889</link>
		<author>Blog Jones</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.blogjones.com/WordPress/2006/02/01/starbucks-banned-at-bju/#comment-5889</guid>
		<description>Point One: The verse you are referring to is Matt 7:1. But have you considered Matt 7:2?

&lt;blockquote&gt;
1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

In other words, all that verse is saying is that you will be held to the same standard that you hold others to. The verse is &lt;b&gt;not&lt;/b&gt; a blanket condemnation on all judgment of other human beings. In fact, I Corinthians 6:2 says "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?"

Point Two: James 1:13-14 says "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed."

In other words, if you are committing the sin of homosexuality, you don't get to blame God for "making a mistake." &lt;i&gt;You&lt;/i&gt; are the one who is allowing yourself to be drawn away of your own lusts and enticed. Not God.

Everyone has their own sins that they are naturally inclined to chase after. Some people are strongly tempted by theft, others by greed, others by adultery, and still others by homosexuality.

Point Three: I think the reason that they stopped buying the Starbucks coffee and not the Jack in the Box restaurants is that while Jack in the Box is accomodating homosexuality, Starbucks seems to be actively promoting it. There's a difference between saying "You can do that" and "You &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; do that."</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Point One: The verse you are referring to is Matt 7:1. But have you considered Matt 7:2?</p>
<blockquote><p>
1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.<br />
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
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<p>In other words, all that verse is saying is that you will be held to the same standard that you hold others to. The verse is <b>not</b> a blanket condemnation on all judgment of other human beings. In fact, I Corinthians 6:2 says &#8220;Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?&#8221;</p>
<p>Point Two: James 1:13-14 says &#8220;Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, if you are committing the sin of homosexuality, you don&#8217;t get to blame God for &#8220;making a mistake.&#8221; <i>You</i> are the one who is allowing yourself to be drawn away of your own lusts and enticed. Not God.</p>
<p>Everyone has their own sins that they are naturally inclined to chase after. Some people are strongly tempted by theft, others by greed, others by adultery, and still others by homosexuality.</p>
<p>Point Three: I think the reason that they stopped buying the Starbucks coffee and not the Jack in the Box restaurants is that while Jack in the Box is accomodating homosexuality, Starbucks seems to be actively promoting it. There&#8217;s a difference between saying &#8220;You can do that&#8221; and &#8220;You <i>should</i> do that.&#8221;</p>
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