I don’t play semantics. I simply believe we are forcing our beliefs on a group of people and condemning them through punishment. God burned Sodom.....not man. Let God judge them and let us not oppress them. Let us make them as free to choose God and turn from that lifestyle as we are from our own sin. Let us not turn them off to the freedom God grants us by oppressing them? We become just as guilty.
Frankly, I am shocked and embarrassed by the stone throwing christians when it comes to this issue. I see why Coulter and Rush wont pick those stones up.
“I don’t play semantics.”
Yes you do.
“You’re OPPRESSING the gays by not letting them amrry!”
That isn’t semantics, that is equal application of the law, period. This has nothing to do with Biblical rules, this is a legal definition of a contract. This same contractual definition crosses all cultural and religious lines. This same contractual definition applies in Atheist, Communist China, Buddhist/Shinto Japan, in most Shamanistic cultures in the Amazon and Africa, Muslim Morocco, etc, etc.
The funny thing is I came to see it this way from a gay friend. I have many, many gay friends (probably more than most freepers) and most don’t see this as discrimination against them. (albeit, most are libertarian leaning). In a recent conversation, most were disgusted with the activists types and the ‘straight’ liberals putting words in their mouth about this. A very close friend of the family is a famous ‘Bon Vivant’ homosexual in Dallas who has been with his partner for over 30 years and they are extremely vocal against gay marriage. They do want civil unions but they have come out many times in the Dallas Morning News against changing these basic definitions in society. (..and don’t even get me started as to what they think about all the ‘drama queens’ in California.)