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Blount County: God, don’t smite us for gay marriage

The Blount County Courthouse
The Blount County Courthouse
photo The commission for Blount County, located in East Tennessee just south of Knoxville, is scheduled to discuss a resolution “condemning judicial tyranny and petitioning God’s mercy” during its Tuesday meeting.

A Tennessee county commission is set to take up a resolution that asks God to spare its citizens from an anticipated wrath associated with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that legalized gay marriage nationwide.

The commission for Blount County, located in East Tennessee just south of Knoxville, is scheduled to discuss a resolution “condemning judicial tyranny and petitioning God’s mercy” during its Tuesday meeting.

“WE adopt this resolution before God that He pass us by in His Coming Wrath and not destroy our County as He did Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring cities,” the resolution states.

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