RE: Pence VS. Rippon
February 15, 2018 at 8:49 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2018 at 9:06 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(February 15, 2018 at 7:25 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: That’s just wrong!
It's not, though.
You are showing your Christian privilege.
If you support the idea that some people don't deserve the same rights as you because they don't share your religious belief, there is no way you can spin that to merely a difference of opinion. The whole "redefining marriage" gambit has been debunked over and over. Marriage is a civil benefit in America. It is profoundly unconstitutional to deny that benefit to people based on the religious beliefs of some.
If you were a politician in the 1960s and were one of those clamoring that we should not 'redefine marriage' so that black and white people could freely marry, then you'd be just as susceptible to being labelled a bigot.
This idea that the principle that some people are not worthy of equal treatment is not merely a difference of opinion, it is a plague upon a civil society that must be met with the harshest of public rebuke. Mike Pence has repeatedly shown that he supports legislation that would allow for the debasement of an entire group of people based on his religious belief. That makes him a bigot, and that makes his "nice" offer of support a farce, and intolerable.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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