Posted on 04/03/2015 6:48:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Let us assume, for the moment, that individuals and organizations opposed to Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act are well intentioned and pursuing their protests in good conscience. That may be more credit than most of them would give to people on the other side of the debate. But I’ve got a point to make.
The view of the opposition is that this law denies the civil rights of gays. They are convinced that those who support it are motivated by animosity toward homosexuals and revulsion at the idea that people of the same sex can marry. Opponents reject any argument that the law is meant to defend religious freedom. In fact, they don’t see how religion comes into it very much at all: How does equality for some people impinge on the beliefs and faith practices of others? they’ll ask. This is a plural society. So it’s a matter of “Live and let live!”
Now, if you really press them, you might eventually get a little bit of candor out of somebody: Sure, I can see how a Christian baker might feel uncomfortable making a cake for a gay wedding.
Still, they won’t give an inch on what they see as the essential principle at stake: When you’re in business to serve the public, you have to accommodate all of the public. And that’s as far as their thinking goes.
It is -- to be charitable -- as far as their thinking is likely to go, given the irreligious character of the current intellectual atmosphere. Let’s face it, moral philosophy isn’t a widely shared interest just now. Even churchgoers often find it difficult to express their moral perspective cogently. They might say something like: What about the Christian baker? Doesn’t he have rights too?
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They now also own the Boy Sodomites of America.
The left wants to use the force of government to compel Christian businesses to participate in activities that are against their religion because the left has sanctioned these activities, and anyone who doesn’t follow suit will risk being destroyed if they don’t fall in line. this is really scary.
More expensive than cancer, and publicly demanding a cure which doesn’t seem to work given that HIV attacks the very foundations of how vaccines and other modern medicine operates.
“Moral validation for their lifestyle”
This is it in a nutshell. We as most families in America have gay’s in our family. None of them are overt or even talk to us about their lifestyle. Nobody talks about it.
The reason they don’t talk about it is they know the lifestyle is first of all abnormal and secondly not really socially acceptable. Even though the whole country is being subjected to this gay pride movement and gay marriage when you get right down to it its still looked upon as abnormal behavior. Unnatural behavior and the gay movement is attempting to force the rest of society to at least pretend they are natural and normal.
Seems like gays are questioning their lifestyle more than
everyone else is.
I agree.
I said in a previous post:
I think I may have the sense of feeling that Jews had in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power.
Is condyloma acuminata festive?
Is condyloma acuminata festive?
They also say that the Bible was mistranslated and was never meant to say that God doesn’t like “homosexuals”. What it meant to say was “pedophiles”.
If they can convince themselves and enough churches and Christians that this is true then their moral standing is clarified. They can be priests and take communion and hang out with children and get married in the church. Therefore it would be truly hateful to discriminate against them, and of course you couldn’t be a real Christian and not approve of them or the “lifestyle”.
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