Slimebeast said:
By eating meat they're doing a bigger atrocity themselves than what they are condemning others of doing. |
Oh come on slimebeast. We should stick to the marriage issue, and not turn this into "the hypocrisy of liberalism." I could just as easily take every right-wing radical fringe group, and say that they prove "the hypocrisy of conservativism." And what does eating meat have to do with anything? Must all liberals be vegetarians or hypocrites?
I think the people who want to limit marriage to a religious institution are literally calling themselves "holier than thou." People are saying they don't want non-religious people to get married at all, because... it's only holy and not for anybody else. There was just a guy on Colbert who said atheists shouldn't get married unless they get baptized. People are telling me I shouldn't be married because I'm an atheist. What I'm saying is that that's okay. I will tolerate it. It's a matter of faith and I have no say in it. I don't want to change churches.
But the churches shouldn't want to change my laws. The legal definition of marriage needs to be extended to everybody. The churches can recognize whatever they want. Mormons have retroactive baptisms for dead people (as far as they're concerned, Einstein and Hitler are now Mormons), and some churches even do retroactive marriages for dead people. Those aren't legally binding. The church and the government already treat divorces differently, so I don't see how having the church and the government treat marriages differently will be any worse.
