Why are all the people screaming for freedom of religion the same people who are saying gay marriages shouldn't be allowed because it's wrong in the eyes of God? Isn't that a tad bit hyppocritcal?
2006-07-05 15:30:59 · 23 answers · asked by BuffyFan 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
People...you are missing my point. If you want Freedom of Religion (meaning people can CHOOSE their own religion) how can you FORBID gay marriage by saying it's against GOD? Maybe those people don't believe in God! Get it now?
2006-07-05 15:42:46 · update #1
I agree. If the government wants to ban gay marriage, they need something other than excuses about religion. (Freedom of religion and seperation of church and state are both violated by this.)
2006-07-06 13:29:20 · answer #1 · answered by Charon 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Don't know.
I want freedom FROM religion.
Seeing as how there should also be a separation of church and state, I don't think religion should have anything to do with gay marriage, if the state is going to stay in the marriage business.
2006-07-05 22:50:28 · answer #2 · answered by Tray 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand how expressing a belief about gay marriage has anything to do with freedom of religion. Unless...I'm just guessing... you're saying that gayness is in some way a religion in itself? Or it's the central theme of a specific religion?
2006-07-05 22:36:47 · answer #3 · answered by nothing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not aware of people screaming for freedom of religion but I would like to point out that there is a difference between freedom of religion and freedom from religion.
People who call themselves secular humanists seem to think that if a person's source of beliefs on a topic come from a religious base then somehow those beliefs have to be kept in private. That's a double and arbitrary standard. People get their opinions and beliefs from wherever they get them from and the source shouldn't be a dis-qualifier for them to be included in public debate.
Imagine if the standard was that if someone didn't get their beliefs from a university education then they had to keep them private. Would you sanction telling someone whose opinions came from the school of hard knocks and who only had an 8th grade eduction being told that they had to shut up and keep their opinions to themselves?
2006-07-05 22:46:53 · answer #4 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are confused.
EVERYONE should be screaming about freedom of religion. Do you even know why it was put in the Constitution? It is about the government not dictating religion to us----actually, the homosexual activists support this HUGELY! If anything the 'religious right' would love to see more religion (their religion) in the public arena......
so, I think that your premise is incorrect. People that want religion OUT are the homosexuals, not the 'religious right' who want the 'gay marriage' OUT.
2006-07-05 22:37:58 · answer #5 · answered by Michelle A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's absolutely hypocritical. Same-sex legal unification is protected by the Constitution in its 1st and 14th amendments (freedom of religion and equal protection under the law). If the United States government is going to allow two people to join together for legal reasons (filing taxes, next-of-kin status for medical decisions, etc.), it CANNOT discriminate as to the gender of the two people involved.
President Bush knows that banning gay marriage is unconstitutional - that's why he's trying to put in the CONSTITUTION - so the Supreme Court wouldn't be able to fix the bigoted actions of the majority, which is what the Supreme Court EXISTS to do.
President Bush makes me sick...trumpeting freedom out of one side of his mouth, and advocating unconstitutional discrimination out of the other.
2006-07-05 22:36:57 · answer #6 · answered by Tiger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so, but I'm an atheist that doesn't support gay marriage either. I think that once you change the definition of marriage then you open it up to other areas like polygamy, marrying children/animals/objects....etc.
Also, whether you believe in god or the big bang, or whatever, you can't deny the fact that man was designed to be with woman.
2006-07-05 22:36:21 · answer #7 · answered by Der Mann 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fundamental basis for marriage since the beginning has been for one man and one woman to be joined as one and to create a family together. I have yet to see 2 women or 2 men be able to create a new life. There is no possible way. Marriage is the foundation for family.
2006-07-05 22:36:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's hypocritical. Which religion has a bible that says it's okay for males to be married to males or females married to females? Gay marriage sounds more like they are choosing " freedom of choice", not freedom of religion. :)
2006-07-05 22:38:49 · answer #9 · answered by BlueAngel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom of Religion is not the same as Fredom FROM Religion.
People marrying animals shold be OK too then?
2006-07-05 22:35:03 · answer #10 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋