RE: "Jesus would rather kill, not marry, gay people" - Franklin Graham
July 19, 2018 at 7:58 am
(July 18, 2018 at 9:40 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(July 18, 2018 at 8:40 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: You're right, RR. Gay couples and straight couples are different. What you and your neanderthal buddies don't seem to get (and I'm seriously beginning to believe it's intentional obtuseness), is that those different couples are supposed to be treated equally under the law.
Bullshit. Just because something is different, doesn't mean it's not equal.
8+8 = 4*4 = 128/8 <----- They're all different yet they're all equal.
For fuck's sake, the logic your using could just as easily be used by segregation era racial bigots (a mixed race couple is different, and therefore not equal), and probably was.
Bigotry is bigotry no matter how you dress it up and try to defend it. You claim it's a sin? Well, the Seventh Day Adventists claim to this day that mixing the races is a sin and can provide "scriptural evidence" to back it up. Are you going to defend the retrograde position of your SDA brothers in christ with the same fervor with which you defend your own?
Under the law? Bet your ass they're certainly supposed to be.
Simmer down now.... that was just a statement (not a logical claim). And if you disagree, we can make all three instances equal again, and go back to that. I'm not saying that they don't deserve equal rights (and dignity) as a person. I simply don't agree with changing the definition of marriage to make up for that difference, anymore than you don't agree with it for the other differences. There is not any rights being denied in one any more than the other. If so what are they, and why don't you think that a single person or other deserve these rights. The law is about equal rights, not that everything is treated the same, and that we have to re-define terms, to make them the same, if they are not.
The definition of marriage was already changed when the government got involved as opposed to the church controlling everything.
Just call everything done by the government 'secular marriage' and don't worry about it further. Because that is *all* it is: a secular agreement between a couple and the government.
I think that the change you object to is *really* the one that makes marriage a secular as opposed to a religious institution. Once that is done, simple decency requires that gays be allowed to marry also.
