RE: MARRIAGE EQUALITY NATIONWIDE
August 5, 2015 at 12:40 pm
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2015 at 12:41 pm by Ace.)
(August 5, 2015 at 11:12 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: [quote='Ace' pid='1008243' dateline='1438186238']
That is a good question; am I only a bigot when I don't agree with you? Do I have to always agree with you to not be a bigot? . . . Can I ever say no? . . .If so, then how is that not what you accuse the religious of doing, "you can't force your own beliefs (ideas or views) on other people?
(August 5, 2015 at 11:12 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: Anyone wishing to deny equality to an entire group of people based only on a single characteristic . . .that is not illegal qualifies as a bigot to me.
Very, intersecting that you made this characteristic distinction because I agree with you in that distinctions should not be base on a SINGLE CHARACTERISTIC. Many on this board have argued that anything that a consensual adult does should be granted the right to do. This has been used to argued the acceptances of both polygamy and adult insist (which is illegal)
But it can be argued that even their argument only relies on the single issue of a consensual adult that is to be the factor in deciding.
(August 5, 2015 at 11:12 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: It has nothing to do with who agrees with whom, and everything to do with whether or not one would deny groups of people equal treatment.
True, and I am not deny any one any equal treatment, agree with or not. More to the point, which many seem to not be recognizing, it is the state (government) not any individual citizens who can decided the rights people have and take away (and they have legally) the rights of people. No person has such a power no matter what their own ideas are.
Also I have not advocated that anyone rights should be taken away or the unequal treatment of anyone. All I said is that if I don't not agree with same sex, that is my own right to do so, free from any form of prosecution of body or character.