I think having the ability to say whatever you wish, good or bad, is vastly more important to keep intact than to shave off a bit here and there to accommodate delicate sensibilities.
However, there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 1200 laws and codes in the US pertaining to married people, and it is repulsive that a nation proud of its freedoms denies these rights to a certain group of consenting adults. In that respect, it mirrors the civil rights movement and women's suffrage.
Your philosophical reasons for disagreeing with homosexual sex are yours to keep, but they are still philosophical in nature, not based upon anything more than a belief system which we at this forum do not respect or value. It was wrong for southern white males to bully black people, women, and immigrants, and to deny them equal rights, as it is wrong for our current government to deny people equal rights for similar reasons.
The purpose of these parades is to promote equality, and if that process is often exaggerated or overly flamboyant simply for the purpose of getting attention, then so be it. In this country, you have to be loud and abrasive for things to change.
However, there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 1200 laws and codes in the US pertaining to married people, and it is repulsive that a nation proud of its freedoms denies these rights to a certain group of consenting adults. In that respect, it mirrors the civil rights movement and women's suffrage.
Your philosophical reasons for disagreeing with homosexual sex are yours to keep, but they are still philosophical in nature, not based upon anything more than a belief system which we at this forum do not respect or value. It was wrong for southern white males to bully black people, women, and immigrants, and to deny them equal rights, as it is wrong for our current government to deny people equal rights for similar reasons.
The purpose of these parades is to promote equality, and if that process is often exaggerated or overly flamboyant simply for the purpose of getting attention, then so be it. In this country, you have to be loud and abrasive for things to change.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
