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To: TraditionalistMommy

I am speculating that it is a rhetorical question and the answer is no, however having said that homosexuals “getting married” is unholy.


272 posted on 05/15/2008 4:56:52 PM PDT by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: svcw

You wouldn’t want the government making decisions based on what a religion (say, Islam) considers holy or unholy, right? Probably best that the state stay out of the business of holiness altogether, don’t you think?


275 posted on 05/15/2008 5:02:06 PM PDT by TraditionalistMommy
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I honestly don’t care what people do in the privacy of their own homes, but this isn’t about the “liberty” to do as you wish within your own home. This is about the court’s unilaterally creating a “right” to have the government step in and sanction and legitimize a particular lifestyle. Every time a “right” is created out of whole cloth, “liberty” is taken away from some other area. It is difficult nigh unto impossible for the government to recognize homosexual marriage without recognizing and protecting practicing homosexuals as a group under the law. If they begin to receive protected status under the law then eventually discriminating against practicing homosexuals will be illegal for even the most trivial matters, not just with regards to the government’s own policies, but with respect to society at large. Since many of religious beliefs require us to put a certain amount of seperation between ourselves and people who choose to live in sin, it is inevitable that our religious beliefs will soon come into conflict with the law. Christian organizationa will be compelled to employ homosexual staff, Christian welfare organizations will be forced to aallow them to adopt their children. Eventually simply stating standard Christian beliefs on homosexual behavior will be regarded as hate speech within this country. I’m all for lieve nad let live, but that’s not what this is about at all. They don’t want tolerance they want acceptance and they’ll use the tools of the government to enforce it. The eventual outcome of the courts affirmatively sanctioning, legitimizing, and enfranchising the homosexual lifestyle is the government persecution of conservative christians. This is not a one off and done proposition. This is not a case where we let them use the courts to get their way on one issue and get outrages for a time then completely forget about the issue five years late. If we lose on this issue nationally, as minor as it may seem to some, this will persist and this will be nipping at our own liberty for as long as this Republic persists.


306 posted on 05/15/2008 5:38:28 PM PDT by Blackyce (President Jacques Chirac: "As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.")
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