So, who here will avoid Oreos because of a rainbow one produced for ad campaign?

[kitler53]

homer said:

kitler53 said:

homer said:
Sick of people shoving gay pride crap down people's throats. It's so stupid. Are people so low that they have to add a political message to cookies now? As a christian, I will never recognize their partnership despite what the government claims.

you can believe whatever you want, that's your right. inside the walls of your church you should be able to practise whatever crasy idea you want even if i don't like it.  but as an atheist, i'm just as tired have having christian believes shoved down my throat.  i don't belived in the sancity of the bible - stop using it to obstruct the freedoms that america what founded to protect. 

if you want to have your crazy ideas respected by me inside your home then please reconize you need to respect my crazy ideas inside of my home.

What freedom is taken from gays? The right to marriage? The government shouldn't even have the right to marry people. Marriage is between God a man and a woman. The government is preventing a group from having rights they don't even in turn have the right to control. That's why I don't care what the government says regarding marriage and why I will never recognize a partnership between two people of the same sex.

there certainly is an element of marriage that is strictly religious.  but in america there is also a distinct element of marriage that is contract between two consenting adults that carries with it many privileges not available to unmarried individuals.

so i believe that separate and equal is a bad idea.  it was bad during the civil rights movement.  it is just as bad to advocate of the supposedly "equal" concept of a civil union.

that leaves two option: 

A) abolish marriage.

B) recognized the distinction between the religious and political elements of marriage and provide equal and fair treatment to all US citizens in marriage law.

...of the two options i think B) is a better one.  the institution of marriage is older than christianity itself so is seems odd and wrong to me to let christianity pretend the bible has the definitive definition of marriage.