Why do christians think that homosexual couples receiving equal rights......?

Question

is somehow stepping on your individual rights? How are they hurting or making things more difficult for you.

Answer 1

I totally agree with you. Giving homosexuals the same rights as heterosexuals would make us all..... I don't know.... humans.

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As per the usual, you are getting the typical conservative answers about gay marriage and gays adopting babies, blah blah blah. You can be married according to law *without* any kind of blessing from a church. If God doesn't allow for same-sex marriage, fine. But that doesn't mean the government should not allow it. Separation of church and state ~ you'll find it in a little document I like to call the Constitution. As for the adoption issue, I find it very difficult to believe that a child is better off being bounced between foster parents or growing up in a group home than with two loving parents of any gender or sexual orientation.

Sorry. This issue p*sses me off.

Answer 2

I can speak only for myself. No flames, please. The asker has a right to ask the question, and I, plus all others who choose to, can answer.

First of all, heterosexual couples who live together outside of marriage don't have the same rights as married couples. Just because two people are committed to each other does not mean that they should legally be afforded the same rights as a couple with a marriage license. And that includes homosexuals.

As for stepping on my individual rights, I don't currently feel like that, in and of itself, is a valid argument. Our society has adopted a "live and let live" attitude for decades now, as long as one's person or personal property are not violated.

However (and here's the rub) throughout history, the bedrock of society has been the family. By family, I mean a husband, wife and kids. Many kids have been successfully raised in single parent homes although this is rarely a preferred option but one adopted by necessity. By the very fact of nature, homosexual couples cannot procreate unless they resort to some unorthodox means of doing so. I'm sorry, but I see homosexuality as an alternative--not a normal--lifestyle and not conducive to the preservation of the family. In that respect, even though my rights may not be violated now, if this trend continues, where will my rights--and more importantly, where wil the family be one, two, maybe three decades from now?

Answer 3

I have two additudes towards equal rights.
As far as government is conserned everyone should have the same rights
As far as religion is conserned we are all equal human beings no matter what, which means they should be given the same rights, but not married in the religious aspect.

I believe there should be two types of marriage, the government form, and the religious form. Just like when people of different religions marry they have two seperate ceremonies. This is what I propose. They can not be married in the sight of God, but in the governments eye they should be.

(I am a Christian, and am also greatly offended by your assumptions.)

Answer 4

Because redefining a quintessental institution like marriage robs me and my children of the specific benefit of being known as 'married' in the original sense. A better question would be, why must homosexuals coopt an institution that they clearly do not qualify for? Especially since they were offered 'equal rights' in an alternate legal ceremony, and REFUSED it.

Answer 5

I'm not a pure christian so I cant exactly speak for them. However, I don't think its making it difficult for them at all, they just want to reinforce their religion on the United States and turn the bill of rights into the bible. I've always viewed this issue as the parallel of the black/white segregation days. Thank goodness we're not fighting a physical war over all this.

Answer 6

I completely agree. If anyone views same-sex marriage as "getting special rights" then the time will come, and soon, where Blacks are no longer allowed to vote, and Women cannot testify in court.
When you step onto that slipperly slope, you can't help but race faster and faster down into the abyss...

Answer 7

Christians have been stepping on homosexual rights so long they just can't get used to not having a class of people to dump on to make themselves feel better about themselves and their tawdry chosen homophobic lifestyle.

Answer 8

Because they believe its against there god and anyone not like them should not have the same rights as them. Its just plain ignorance. Gay people can't change who they are and you can't force them to love someone of the opposite sex, it would be a false love and still be wrong in the eyes of god.

Answer 9

it is all wrong that gay stuff and saying its ok dont make it right. ask Jesus into your life and be born again by the power of the Gospel (an actual real life event in your real life) if you do this in a prayer sincerely God will answer you! you have to truely seek then God will answer!

Answer 10

They fear it because it's different than what they're accustomed to. If there was one line in the Bible about Jesus approving of homosexality, these same people would completely change their song. Seems a little arbitrary.

Answer 11

Look at it this way. If you had to give up a child would you want it to grow up in a homosexual home? Should any child have to grow up in that manor?