RE: Gay couples in a Texas restaurant
February 26, 2013 at 3:17 am
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2013 at 3:18 am by Ryantology.)
(February 25, 2013 at 11:08 pm)Nobody Wrote: I think you'd make a better point if you didn't disrespect the topic with such drivel as "rooinin sankitty" in your speech. It's isn't cool. It just shows you don't respect the dialog so how can you espouse respect for tolerance?
The value of my point is in no way determined by how I choose to frame it. I do not 'respect the dialog' because I do not recognize the necessity of the dialog. This is not a topic which should be up for debate.
Quote:It seems like a double standard to claim you don't care about other peoples moral standards, while proclaiming to care about being tolerant.
I still do not understand why you think I should respect moral standards I find entirely repugnant.
Quote:Regardless, I would say others are just as entitled to say they don't have to meet anyone elses expectations when it comes to personal values or their own sense of morality.
Homophobes do not have to meet anyone else's expectations when it comes to recognizing equal rights for homosexuals. All they have to do is mind their own business.
Quote:People have to agree to disagree. And people have to realize not everything is tolerable. Sex is not a civil right.
Who gets to decide what is, and is not, a civil right?
Quote:The United States code presently defines marriage as between that of one man and one woman. Religion and it's definitions are separate and have their understanding along that same line as well.
That is how it is presently defined. Hopefully, that definition will soon be obsolete.
Quote:People have a right to opine about that. And it is a myth that homosexual relationship under civil contract does not affect society. If 'marriage' was so benign as all that to mean nothing, polygamy would be legal.
Polygamy is only illegal for the same backwards, bigoted reasons gay marriage is illegal. Many cultures elsewhere in the world practice polygamy.
Quote:What is interesting when one takes a sober look at those statistics is, there's very little tolerance for the will of the people that let that to happen.
It is lucky for you that your rights aren't held hostage by a religious majority electorate. Of course, you don't recognize these things as rights, but I guess that is the privilege of being in the majority.
That all being said, I have to ask: is your listing of your religious views as 'atheist' ironic? Your argument looks like something ripped straight out of the Family Research Council handbook, minus Jesus namedropping and Bible citations.
