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I want you to see that in your heart of hearts, you are guilty of the same thing for which you have been critical of others.

I’m not sure we can reconcile this. I am guilty of judging people for denying others their right to live by their own rules or lifestyle. My basis for this is the Declaration. The anti-gay piling on sentiment from so many FReepers is judging people for homosexuality. It’s apples and oranges.

The Declaration really does say “pursuit of happiness” without any morality clause. Freedom for all.

Maybe (scratching my head) we need another example that removes Biblical morality from the equation. Trying to do moral algebra so early in the morning, I might have trouble, but here goes. What if there were a movement in the USA to legalize bigamy? A man can take two wives, or a woman two husbands. (Leave the gay marriages out for the purpose of this analogy.). And the people were voting to allow it or judges were approving it. And many Americans wanted it. Well, it would be one of those freedoms that might look unsavory to a lot of us. But it isn’t Biblically wrong, and people could still have only one spouse if they wanted. We’d have to accept it even if it seemed to hurt the institution of marriage. And hating the people who really want it would be as wrong as worshiping bigamists.

It’s not a great analogy because a bigamist wasn’t “born that way” (though they would say men are born wanting many women). I don’t know if thst even helps.

I am sure if you combed my life and ideas you’d find examples of hypocrisy that I never caught. But I just don’t think this is one of them.