Most americans agree that it is unconstitutional to justify slavery, segregation, and the denial of the right to vote because of religion. why is it acceptable to deny gays the right to a happy marriage because of religion.
ps - im not gay.
2007-07-24 18:52:55 · 13 answers · asked by mr.toadey 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
By the same token that athiests reject God, most major organized faiths reject alternative sexual behavior.
No matter what your faith, or lack thereof, you consider some things to be right, some things to be wrong.
Even non-religious people do not necessarily embrace the ideal that every form of sexuality is ok. Just because you believe in a god or gods or fate or destiny or luck or none of the above, that does not mean that your opinions are necessarily wrong.
The argument is basically this: if you make gay marriage legal, most major churches and synagogues and mosques and places of worship will be forced to allow marriages to gay couples, even though it is strictly prohibited by their religion.
The better question might be, why is religion necessarily wrong? Why do the minority have the right to take away the freedom to practice faith?
You cannot, even through laws, force the majority to accept alternative sex as being a sacred right. You can only do that through tolerance and understanding, patience and acceptance.
Pass the law, don't pass the law. Makes no difference to me. I'm not a member of any organized faith. But remember that you cannot force anyone to recognize your special marriage unless they truly accept it in their heart, which most religious people choose not to do, because there is a fundamental difference between gay couples and straight couples. One is responsible for society itself, and the other is an experiment in freedom which does not have a viable result.
Whether you agree with me or not, at least you had someone stand up and give you an honest response to your question. I doubt if anyone was truly listening.
2007-07-24 19:07:27 · answer #1 · answered by askthepizzaguy 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is fundamental to the Christian following that homosexuality is an abomination unto God. Therefore, it is our right to cry foul in the face of such behavior, just the same as it is for everybody to cry foul against somebody who molests a 4 year old child...
It is all based upon morals. A definite line between what is right and what is not right.
I have mixed feelings regarding the issue. On one side we have a series of writings that extend well beyond 3 thousand years, and these writings have spelled out that it is wrong and to be shunned.
On the other hand, this country was founded on freedom and I personnally believe with God's grace.
I do not see any reason for a company to withhold insurance or "spousal" rights from a gay couple, but I see no reason why the relationship has to be flaunted in my face.
The Bible says to love one another as ourselves
It also says to hate the sin but not the sinner.
2007-07-25 02:19:53 · answer #2 · answered by wi_saint 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Like any other religous view point it takes a decade or two to get them out of their bigoted ways. If it were not for the non religous we would STILL HAVE slavery segragation and the denial of certain groups to vote. The moral minority needs to be dragged into justice kicking and screaming as the christian god is NOT a just god.
Shocks me still at times to see folks SO prejudiced against something that HAS NO EFFECT on them. I see people on here saying that child molestation is wrong therefore homosexuality is wrong. How does that even fit into the same category? One is two CONSENTING ADULTS, while the other is just child rape... christians are horrible people.
2007-07-25 02:01:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think it's because a lot of people are ooked out by the idea of gays, and the Bible seems like the most pure justification for that ooky feeling. After all, there ARE some statements in the Old Testament against homosexuality--along with the statements forbidding touching pigskin and saying that someone who talks back to their parents should be stoned, but STILL.
2007-07-25 01:57:03 · answer #4 · answered by Vaughn 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Organized religion has often been used as a political, economic, social, or moral weapon, and for a very long time. The violence displayed reveals the fact that as an institution religion is organized around power, and wields that power not as a spiritual force in society, but as an instrument of control. It is a mistake to interpret this action, as in the case of gays, as a spiritual or religious one, when in fact it is no more than an expression of fear and prejudice acted out wearing the offices of the church.
2007-07-25 02:15:08 · answer #5 · answered by michaelsan 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christianity doesn't discriminate against gay people, if you think so you have met the wrong "Christians." Hi, my name is Ariel and some of my best friends are gay. People that i cherish and love are, and it doesn't bother me one bit. I don't discriminate against anyone, though Heaven knows I've been discriminated against. Not all Christian are the same, but are treated as one, which isn't right. Some people call themselves Christians, they only use the rules when it works for them. The main part of being a Christian is believing that Jesus Christ came to Earth as God born a man for the sole reason of saving us from our sins because He didn't want us to rot in Hell. Because He loved us he gave us an infinite number of chances, even though we didn't deserve it. He died for us to become the perfect receptacle to take our sins and pay for them himself so that we wouldn't have to. Discriminating against something like this isn't right because in all reality if they are real Christians it wouldn't matter.
2013-11-01 17:46:53 · answer #6 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion says that it is a sin for a person to be gay? I wonder who wrote that? Gays have their rights just as we all do. They can act and conduct their sexual lives as they feel they should. Religion tries to become involved in everything we do and they should keep their noses out of our affairs. They interfered in science by stating that the world was flat and the earth revolved around the sun. If you differed with this FACT than you could have been tortured and sent to the stake. Galileo was kept prisoner in his own home for 7 years because he wrote a paper that said the earth revolved around the sun. The church almost had him killed but he was too famous for that fate. Religion is used by the do-gooders to satisfy every premise they may have. Too bad for humanity.
Soon the Muslims will be telling us what is right and wrong and how to act.
2007-07-25 02:19:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
It is an abnormal condition and religion has nothing to do with it except that it does not condone such deviant behavior. They are denied for the same reason we do not accept incest or having more than one spouse. Peace
2007-07-25 02:28:05 · answer #8 · answered by PARVFAN 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Being gay is something that is abnormal and not accepted by our society or GOD. If we accept homosexuality then we have to accept slavery, segregation, sex offenders, criminals, sex between father and daughter, marriage of brother and sister, etc. All of it is abnormal....and not acceptable.
2007-07-25 02:01:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
How can you go wrong if you got God on your side? Makes everything so much easier for these people. 'Because God said so!' I guess no need to think when they can just yell God.
2007-07-25 02:09:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋