| Joelcool7 said:
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I'll counter that. What gives the government the right to give benefits to a select group of the community? Would you be for government giving, for instance, Asians exclusive tax cuts? Marriage may not be a right, but being treated as equal is. Are you for a government that does one thing for one group and another for another group?
| Joelcool7 said: Umm the Government forcing pastor's to marry gay couples and civil servents is a view being forced on them. Marrying only straight couples is practicing their religion and forcing them to go against their beliefs and marry gay couples is persecution and forcing the Government's view on the pastors and civil servents. You also make a good point. |
You'll find that most modern governments take a neutral stance on religion. They're damned either way because religious zealous claim Atheism as a religion, when in fact, atheists don't follow beliefs based on a higher power.
| Joelcool7 said: You see when most of these civil servents signed up for marriage liscenses and such gay marriage was not legal, marrying gays was not part of their job description. Would I forbid the company from switching the pigs? No however forcing that Muslim employee to cut up pigs against his religious belief with the threat of being fired if he did not, that is definatly not okay. |
Then what would you do? You cannot switch him to other meats, the religion calls for no touching of surfaces stained with swine blood. A decision must be made...
| Joelcool7 said: Its one thing to legalize gay marriage, but to then force that belief on everyone else in the country is persecution. I don't know how you can think its okay to walk up to a pastor or civil servent and then force them against their will to marry you. Like I said their are plenty of civil servents and pastors who would gladly marry a gay couple so why do the gays have to force other pastors. |
You're making it sound like pastors will be hunted down and pelted with rocks if they don't marry gays. Pastors have the freedom to choose their line of work. If the work does not suit them, they're free to leave and practise their religion elsewhere. Nobody is forcing anything onto anyone.
I would be okay with a few Pastors exempt from same-sex marriage, but unless you can guarantee that all Pastors don't turn in that direction (which you can't), then the exemption argument is completely moot.
