Re: On gay marriage, America's house may not stay divided for long
The law isn't about your opinion. The law doesn't change your opinion. The law being changed says the government will recognize somebody else's marriage. What on earth do you think that has to do with you? Like, somebody is going to come to your house and make sure you're approving of every same-sex wedding? I don't get it. What do you think this has to do with you?
I never said the law was about my opinion, neither did I say or imply it would change my opinion. Moreover, that doesn't answer the question - "
Then why the law?" - which question I put to
your assertion that force plays no role whatsoever in this issue. What in the world do you think a law is???? Do you think it some benign entity that we can regard voluntarily? That's absurd on its face.
Public accommodation businesses don't have the same rights to discriminate. I'm a pilot. I cannot kick you off my airplane for being a Christian. It's against the law.
And if you did... you'd experience the ramifications of law - force. The law forces you to accept Christian passengers. There are penalties if you don't - penalties which constitute the very definition of "FORCE." Your compliance with the law isn't voluntary, it's mandatory.
And besides that - you ignored the other example, the first amendment issue ala the Canadian supreme court.
No, I ask those silly questions to demonstrate my point, which you've confirmed quite nicely: you cannot demonstrate any harm caused to you, or anybody else, by two dudes getting married.
You've either ignored or misconstrued or misrepresented everything I've said and in the process demonstrated precisely
squat, save perhaps your bigotry and hatred towards conservatives, Christians, and / or anyone who disagrees with the homosexual agenda. Moreover, I gave you a perfectly valid example of the sort of harm we fear - fears we're seeing realized right now in Canada as well as growing across this nation. Do you think it a trivial thing that speaking out against homosexuality now has precedent as being a "hate crime?" Do you think that has no impact on you just because you support homosexuality?
Yet again, I need to re-assert what I've previously asserted that I don't agree with or support the use of secular legislation to enforce or prohibit behaviors with which I disagree on a moral basis. Homosexual behavior is a reprehensible, deviant, and abominable behavior. It's perversion at its rawest, self-indulgence at its grossest. But do I think we should employ legislation to prevent it? No.
Can it harm me now? Absolutely it can. Canada already considers speaking out against it as a "hate crime." Similar pressure is being applied to make it so here too. It is now illegal to "discriminate" against homosexuals too - meaning regardless my beliefs about homosexual behavior I am now forced by law against making any distinctions about that behavior as being other than normal. It's not normal though; it's deviant. But by law I am forced to treat it as normal lest I be punished. A behavior - inappropriate sexual behavior. We're not talking someone's skin color - an arbitrary distinction between two otherwise equal human beings. We're talking about behavior, willful acts which earn one the legitimate label "homosexual." Bullies, whose behavior is of the aggressive variety e.g. aren't afforded special distinction with status and privilege that homosexuals seek. What makes homosexuals any different than bullies but the nature of their behavior? BOTH are human beings and BOTH enjoy the same status and privileges afforded all human beings - and that wholly separate from their behavior that makes them homosexuals or bullies.
Can it harm me now? Absolutely it can. The story of homosexuals and homosexuality being promoted throughout society is a lie - and lies, regardless their context are harmful to everyone.
I could go on, and will probably have to - but this suffices as an immediate and valid response to your post.
Seriously, I was over myself a long time ago. But if you don't like where I'm coming from on this topic, maybe - just maybe it's you who needs to get over that -- unless of course you have something substantive to add beyond your opinion on how "laughable" you think everything is. :2wave:
