Republican at a Prayer Breakfast Jokes About Her Shacking Up

' "Glad those in attendance, including @SenatorTimScott and our pastor, took this joke in stride. Pastor Greg and I will have a little extra to talk about on Sunday now," she said.

But some conservatives took issue that Mace used her platform at a Christian prayer breakfast to make light of premarital sex, which Christianity considers a sin.

Tom Ascol, pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Florida, chided, "How thoughtful for @NancyMace to delay fornication so she could show up on time for @votetimescott's prayer breakfast.
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"Nancy Mace just said she turned down sex from her NOT husband but her fiancé this morning in bed because she had to get to the PRAYER BREAKFAST," said Graham Allen, a conservative commentator associated with Turning Point USA's faith division. '

- rest at Nancy Mace's naughty prayer breakfast speech has commenters all worked up: 'I'm a sinner' | Fox News

 

It is not okay for someone who claims to be a Christian to be bragging about shacking up and especially doing so at a "prayer breakfast". Furthermore, I don't see how anyone who claims to be a Christian can say that to point out that fornication is a sin is being a "snowflake", or being "too sensitive", or being "too easily offended".

 

1 Peter 2:11-12 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.

 

I have heard of your concept of marriage as a theological issue before, and I am not going to argue over it; personally, I would not live with woman, much less have sexual relations with her, without a marriage certificate.

Remember when the apostle Paul had Timothy to get circumcised, even though it was not necessary, but in order to not have it be an issue in teaching among Jews? Get the marriage certificate.

 

There are men that consider themselves women and women that consider themselves men; them considering such does not make it so.

 

So who decides what is a valid marriage? Do you think two people can just shack up and then when accused of fornicating just declare, "Oh, in our minds we are married?"

Even to think along your way of thinking about it, wouldn't you require such a couple to have declared that they now consider themselves married before starting to cohabitate?

Yeah, people play so loosey-goosey with what they allow to pass for "Christianity" nowadays that it seems like just about any behavior passes muster with some person or group of persons who consider themselves to be Christians.

 

God's people are seen as perfectly holy in God's eyes based on their sins having been imputed to Christ and the perfect righteousness of Christ having been imputed to them.

That in no way excuses immoral or any sinful behavior in any shape, form, or fashion.

 

Too many people who call themselves Christians who excuse sinful behavior.

 

Ephesians 5:11-12 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

Ephesians 5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise.