"Jesus would rather kill, not marry, gay people" - Franklin Graham

[Angrboda]

....The bible and their church authority says so and that’s that. Abortion and homosexuality are two common moral issues that many Christians are against, but if you ask why they are against it they do not cite scientific facts or any other reasons. Most times they cite scripture or religious dogma. Allowing someone else to make your moral decisions for you is not a wise practice. Your moral choices are some of the most important decisions you can make and often define who we are and most often affect others, sometimes with disastrous results. The murder of abortion doctors is one such result.... [Arizona Atheist]

"That's why those who have an unquestioning faith in the correctness of the moral teachings of their religion are a problem: if they themselves haven't conscientiously considered, on their own, whether their pastors or priests or rabbis or imams are worthy of this delegated authority over their own lives, then they are in fact taking a personally immoral stand." [Daniel Dennett, emphasis in the original]

Dennett goes on to explain how if someone wishes to have a place at the table of a discussion about moral issues one should take the personal responsibility to have rational, well thought out reasons for holding the opinions that one does because if one believes that their stand against homosexuality, let's say, is the word of god then you cannot possibly be argued out of that belief. In that case you've become irrational and having you participate in moral discourse is a waste of time since you cannot and will not change your mind, or make concessions since, after all, you believe it's the word of your god. It would be pointless to have such a person at the table of ideas where reasons, evidence, and rationality are the tools by which people ordinarily make important decisions, especially moral ones, that affect others. That's the point Dennett is trying to get across. [Arizona Atheist]

http://arizonaatheist.blogspot.com/2011/...ation.html