Sexual Orientation vs. Race

[Final-Fan]

mrstickball said:

Final-Fan said:

AFAIK Shinto doesn't take a stance on gay marriage, and thus satisfies the requirement of does not "reject homosexuality as a proper context of marriage". 

So congrats, you're up to 13/15= 86% so far. 

And as far as I can tell your two examples of negative effect on churches are totally irrelevant.  Not only were those consequences not the result of refusing to officiate or recognize gay marriage, they weren't even TALKING about gay marriage in particular, but gays in GENERAL!  So you are making the argument, not that gay marriage will hurt churches, but gay TOLERANCE will hurt churches.  Is that really your position?  Wait, never mind.  Point is, gay marriage, you've proved nothing.

Since when is Shinto a Christian denomination? I was only listing/discussing denominations of Christianty.

So throwing a pastor in jail, or censoring what he says doesn't negatively effect the church? Yeah, got that.

Okay, but ... why are you only counting Christians? is my next question.  (Comment that started this:  "99% of all established, formal, religions reject homosexuality as a proper context of marriage.")

Also, WHAT?  My point is that those examples had nothing to do with pastors getting in hot water for resisting gay marriage, but rather for gay-bashing generally.  So that has nothing to do with the specific claim that gay MARRIAGE will hurt churches.