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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	OK, I haven't had time to read the full thread (because it is huge!), but I hope to offer a fresh perspective. Pardon me if it's already been covered. First, I'm not going to argue about what the Bible says, because there's no point. The nature of any religion is that it is open to interpretation. There's nothing I can say about Christian doctrine that can't be rebutted with an opposite point of view, because religion is too flexible to permit unified agreement. Anyway, we're talking about the rights of people in America. We are not a nation governed by a single religion, and we are a nation that guarantees freedom of religion, which includes the freedom to choose no religion. Second, I am gay, and in a happy lesbian relationship of six years and standing. Just for the record and to respond to previous assumptions made, it is a relationship free from recreational drug use, alcohol abuse, or gender confusion. Neither one of us has ever committed a sex crime, neither one of us has ever cheated on each other or any other previous partner. In case that is important to you. :) And now, on with the post... This argument always turns into a religious battle. The argument made is that gays should not marry because we are an abomination to God. As such, we offend the sanctity of marriage, which is a union before God. If we are permitted to marry, Christians have lost some value in their religion. Note that I'm not trying to interpret the Bible one way or the other; I'm simply relaying the details of that particular side of the argument. As you may imagine, I pay pretty close attention to news about gay marriage, and the argument that gay marriage threatens Christian marriage is always given as the opposition. I submit that marriage is not a union before God. Marriage has existed since before Christianity. Marriage has been practiced in cultures that are not Christian, nor Jewish, nor any of the major world religions. Gay marriage has existed in history prior to modern times. And in America, where we are told that gay marriage threatens the value of Christianity, atheists are permitted to marry. It always gives me pause to take that in. I've never heard anyone argue about atheist rights. I've never heard anyone complain about the atheists, destroying the sanctity of marriage, destroying the value of Christian marriage. And I think if you can openly admit that marriage is not a Christian institution in this nation, as evidenced by the marital rights of atheists and other non-Christians, there is only one reasonable conclusion: People who do not want gays to marry are bigots. Now, probably many of you already know that. But I personally get quite tired of people hiding their bigotry in their religion, as if that is a justification for it. To me, it seems cowardly and manipulative. I am exhausted of hearing "I don't hate gays, but..." Just admit you hate gays. Really, we'd appreciate the honesty. Also, not all Christians are like Jade. As I said, religion is a flexible thing. Loading...
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