Why do people want to inflict their religious views on me?

Question

I live in a free nation with the right to believe whatever I want. So why do religious people think that they can force their religious views on other free people BY LAW by forbidding gays to marry?

Answer 1

It's because they are shortsighted foolish busybodies who have failed to realize that passing secular laws restricting churches from engaging in activities they don't approve of sets a dangerous precedent for future laws restricting church activities they may cherish.

What will be next? Interracial marriage? Snake handling? Having a foreign potentate as a religious leader?

Answer 2

Being a Christian myself, I wouldn't mind if we controlled what was law. Truth is lawmakers are doing everything they can to take religion out of everything (like prayer in school, ten commandments in courts, etcetera). Christians view homosexuality as immoral and so are opposed to gay marriage. Gays are pushing that their lifestyle is not only acceptable, but that we should embrace it. That is not going to happen. People have the right to pick a side. You've chosen yours. One day gays will be able to marry, that does not mean everyone will agree with it.

Answer 3

Don't buy into the Religious Right's claim that they oppose gay marriage on religious grounds!

If it was on religious grounds, they would also oppose all the other things forbidden in verses directly before and after the scarce handful used against GLBTs.

The Religious Right is about cloaking a culturally conservative, idealization-of-the-50's agenda in religious language. Grant you, they truly believe they are fighting for these things on religious grounds. But they're not.

Everything they want can be traced back to cultural ideals.

And the homophobia? Its the "eeew" factor. That's the main thing.

Don't give them legitimacy by buying their claim that it's about religion.

~ Lib

Answer 4

Because not enough people speak out against the religious right wing. For whatever reason in recent years they have gained quiet a bit of political weight and have influenced more than one issue. Personally I feel that if you are truly religious you learn tolerance and compassion for other people's belief's, traditions, & lifestyles. You don't have to agree with them....

Answer 5

Many messianic religions take a position that their views are the only valid ones and that everyone else is wrong and must either be converted or excluded from society. It is intrinsic in the belief system and was designed to conserve resources for the use of like-minded individuals and justify the elimination of all others. You will note this is not the approach taken by Buddhism or many other eastern philosophies.

Answer 6

Simply because they are fanatics and intolerants who think that they possess the only truth, which nobody knows what it is. They forget that in this world nothing is true or false, it is all according to the color of the crystal you see it through. If not so, why are there then so many religions all offering from beautiful houris to a paradise when you die as long as you behave the way they believe in?

Answer 7

'Maria L ' (Who for some reason has no name with her avatar) has got it right.
Nothing really to do with religion, or certainly not all to do with religion, I am not religious, I am anti religious!.
It is to do with society and while you gays may think your behavior is now suddenly acceptable, believe me it is not! Getting married, adopting kids etc etc 'mincing' along the sidewalk holding hands ughhh!!!!!.
Keep it to your selves. You are in fact as bad as some religious groups pushing your activities into peoples faces, so I suggest both groups do their own thing, but dont push it in my face, if I had my way I would ban all religion and gays.
Hope this helps???

Answer 8

I don't think it is so much that they marry, but that they decide to do it in a CHURCH...My personal belief (Here it is, I am shoving it on ya!) is that if you want to do it, go for it...It is your free will, and I am not about to try to judge you..lest I be judged in the process. For what I judge you with, so shall I be judged. Anyway, the point I am trying to make is that My God tells me that it is wrong, and that sin is sin, of course. BUT the big, big difference here is that I am not in the church asking you to approve of my behavior. I am a sinner, and things that I do are not right. But I am not in there asking God to bless the sin that I am sinning. That is the difference. I am not standing in front of my brothers and sisters and saying, "God loves the fact that I am having an affair with someone, and I am asking Him to bless it" Sin is Sin in the eyes of God, and He is not going to approve of it. Period. Does this mean that He doesn't love us any more? Not hardly. But, we should also crucify the flesh, so that we may walk in the Spirit of truth and love, not in the spirit of this is what I want and this is the way it is going to be. I don't push my beliefs on anyone, but they are my beliefs. If asked, I will tell you.

Answer 9

1), we are one nation UNDER GOD.
2), BECAUSE we are a nation under God, according to the bible, homosexuality is a sin and marriage is the vow between a man and a woman under God. I would never hate someone because they are gay, but i just do not think gay marriages are moraly right. I do not mean to offend anyone. If one of my children was gay, it would not change my love for them. But you are asking on the religious and spirituality catagory. If you do not want the religious, according to the bible answer, then you should be on the government catagory. He is what the bible says about gay marriages. Again, this is the bibles answer, not mine.

Question: "What does the Bible say about gay marriage / same sex marriage?"



Answer: Before we look at gay marriage / same sex marriage, first we have to remember what the Bible says about homosexuality. The Bible clearly and consistently tells us that homosexual activity is a sin (Genesis 19:1-13; Leviticus 18:22; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9). God does not create a person with homosexual desires. A person becomes a homosexual because of sin (Romans 1:24-27), and ultimately because of his or her own choice. A person may be born with a greater susceptibility to homosexuality, just as people are born with a tendency to violence and other sins. That does not excuse the person choosing to sin by giving into their sinful desires. If a person is born with a greater susceptibility to anger / rage, does that make it right for them to give into those desires? Of course not! The same is true for homosexuality.



We also have to remember that homosexuality is just as forgivable a sin as all other sins. God’s forgiveness is just as available to a homosexual as it is to an adulterer, idol worshipper, murderer, thief, etc. God’s love and desire to save extends to homosexuals (John 3:16; Romans 5:8). God also promises the strength for victory over sin, including homosexuality, to all those who will believe in Jesus Christ for their salvation (1 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 5:17).



To give sanction to homosexual marriage would be to give approval to that lifestyle, which the Bible clearly and consistently condemns as sinful. I believe that Christians should stand firmly against the idea of gay marriage / same sex marriage. Marriage is ordained by God to be between a man and a woman (Genesis 2:21-24; Matthew 19:4-6). Homosexual marriage is a perversion of the institution of marriage and an offense to the God who created marriage. God forbids and condemns homosexuality, so He clearly is opposed to homosexual marriage. As Christians, we are to seek to share the love of God and salvation through Christ with homosexuals. We are to be loving and kind to homosexuals, while at the same time not condoning their sinful lifestyle.

Recommended Resource: Marriage Under Fire - Why We Must Win This War by James Dobson.

Answer 10

You can believe or not believe as you wish.
That said, I have no intention of sitting by and allowing the government of the country in which I live to sanction by law a lifestyle that blatantly disregards my beliefs.
(Notice I said "sitting by". That is why it is in the court system now.)