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Should I Patronize Businesses That Collide with My Moral Beliefs?

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Should I Patronize Businesses That Collide with My Moral Beliefs?

July 28, 2022
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#STRaskStand to Reason

Questions about whether we should patronize businesses that collide with our moral beliefs, promote the LGBTQ lifestyle, or pay for employees to travel to other states for abortions and why God makes us with certain desires if he calls those desires sin.

* As a Christian, should I patronize businesses that collide with my moral beliefs, and what about businesses that have homosexual and transgender employees?

* Do I have a moral obligation as a Christian to not go to Disney World because of how they promote the LGBTQ lifestyle?

* How do I, as a minister, help people wrestle with concerns about doing business with companies that openly pay for employees to travel to other states for abortions?

* Why does God make us with certain desires if he calls those desires sin?

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