What is your definition of marriage?

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superchunk said:

Sqrl said:

superchunk said:
C - Anything else is just burning witches.

Generalizing much?

I don't think the government really has any right to legislate morals, let alone marriage.  It should be left to the churches to decide how they want to handle their traditions. With that said gays and lesbians need to, at the very least, be allowed to form a union that is given equal legal footing (and requirements) to that of marriage.

Nope. Christians burning witches is the same mentality as opposing gay marriage. The act of marriage has existed far longer than any organized religion. In Islam it doesn't even have religious significance. It is just a contract between two people where each party has obligations to the other party and benefits to boot.

To me if God didn't want homosexuality then God shouldn't have created it since people are born gay. A great number of animals have homosexual behaviour to the same degree as humans, so it is part of the natural order of life, even if it doesn't promote the continuation of the species. However, neigher does eating/killing the offspring of another male, yet Lions and other species do that all the time, again, by laws of creation.

 

Disagreeing with some one and murdering someone are really quite different.  You'll notice that Christians describe theivery as wrong, but you don't see any attempts to set them ablaze.  And if you thought your neighbor was possessed by Satan and causing horrible calamities, might you be inclined to do something about them, too?
Not that I'm saying they were right about them being witches, just that it kinda makes sense, their reactions.  Of course, one might argue that they didn't actually think many of them were witches, just burning those they needed to, but that would be a different argument.