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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are religious, say ultra Catholic, or Mormon, or any other deeply religious person, who is to say that their beliefs are wrong?
These people say that they have read the Bible and in the end, their decision is final...no support of homosexuality. 
The Pope is not going to change on this issue. The Amish still have the same opinion. The list goes on. We all know that these families have gay children like anyone else, but at the end of the day, to them it is wrong.

I will agree that no one has the right to discriminate, say offensive things, or give haircuts, but they are entitled to their beliefs and their vote.

These arguments remind me of a woman at a day care center where I worked (co-op). She disciplined a child for a racist remark, telling the child that the comment was "wrong". I asked her in the future to tell the child that that kind of behavior would not be tolerated at such and such facility. There is a difference. I am not into the business of telling anyone or their family how to think. It is more about what they DO that matters.

Yes, having  a clean heart matters too, but it is not my right to reach into the inner workings of individuals, families, and their religions to confront them on these issues. [/quote]

why couldn't you say a couple, rather than a black couple.

You can be against homosexuality  - I don't care what you believe.  I do care when you seek to impose your beliefs on others.  If you don't like homosexuality, then don't be homosexual.  Don't go around telling other people they can't be homosexual.  But "boo-hoo," you say, "that just means that if you want to fuck children, I should shut up about that too, and we all know that's wrong."  No, that is not an similar situation - children are not capable of giving consent - it's a medical fact that young brains do not have the ability to make competent judgments all the time.  No one is advocating pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, cult-dictated polygamy, or any other non-consensual relationship - these are all, in essence, forms of rape.  But what two rational adults consent to do in the bedroom is no one else's business.  There is no moral relativism whatsoever.

As for gay marriage - you don't want to marry gays in your church, then don't. Gay marriage laws do not force churches to marry gay people.  The laws force state governments to give the same legal rights to gay couples as to straight couples.

A nice African-American couple came to my door this weekend asking me to oppose MD's gay marriage law because the Bible says gay is bad.  You know what?  The Bible also condones slavery, I told them.  Nothing in the Bible prohibits slavery and much of the Bible could be read to support the enslavement on the basis of race alone.  Believe that, if you want.  The Bible also says you should stone to death anyone with a tattoo, anyone who eats bacon, anyone who works on Sunday.  Go ahead, believe whatever you want.  Just keep it to yourself or in your church.[/quote][/quote]

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