Freedom from religion

[Neo-Scholastic]

Perhaps you should simply defer to law on this matter?  It's not as if there isn't a legal distinction between a roommate and a spouse?  The question is idiotic on it's face.

Full stop.

Full stop because you cannot provide a rational answer.

[The Grand Nudger]

If you say so.  I wonder, though, if you think that discrimination is the "rational answer"..............?

[Catholic_Lady]

I think the answer Neo is looking for is the potential to have children.

[The Grand Nudger]

Something that a couple can't lay claim to by being hetero in any case.  Useless. Fuck,.it's not as if a gay couple is somehow inhuman., that by being gay one or the other is incapable of procreation.



Jesus fucking christ............

[Succubus]

I think the answer Neo is looking for is the potential to have children.

Homsaps have borne children for how many thousands years now? Or do you mean born under his eye?

[Neo-Scholastic]

I think the answer Neo is looking for is the potential to have children.

Not exactly, I am looking for his answer. I don't think he has one and I don't think he cares.

[The Grand Nudger]

Correction, I don't care about -your- answer. I'm not one of those Good Atheists™ who knows his place or thinks you have one.

[Bow Before Zeus]

Something that a couple can't lay claim to by being hetero in any case.  Useless.  Fuck,.it's not as if a gay couple is somehow inhuman.,  that by being gay one or the other is incapable of procreation.



Jesus fucking christ............

Khemikal's frustration is palpable! And I can say, well justified...

[SaStrike]

But keep in mind most religious people sincerely believe in what their religion says. As an atheist it might seem like discrimination but forcing them to do things against their religion is not a good thing. I'm talking about 2017, so yes homosexuality is still a sensitive topic in religion (and will hopefully and most likely be phased out and accepted as the indoctrination gets erased by science and education in the near future).

For example racism and other silly issues like slavery and sexism has been slowly filtered out (by Christianity at least, Islam still has a ways to go lol). But it'll get there. Forcing the issue just seems a bit extreme, since as I mentioned, it's only 2017 and there are theist that genuinely believe that homosexuality is wrong, they grew up with those topics being drilled into their heads, hard to call it discrimination.

[Aroura]

The question is, if they sincerely believed that mixed race marriage was wrong, would we be having this same conversation? I mean, this was the conversation 40 years ago, and yet here we are again.

What about if they thought, as some Muslims apparently do, that woman are mentally unequal to certain challenges, such as say, driving. If one was an auto mechanic, would he then be allowed to refuse to repair a car owned by a woman, even if he's the only repair shop in town?