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Originally Posted by etdpratt
I am not a mormon, but I wanted to look at the issue from their perspective. I have several mormon buddies that are great individuals.
If you were to believe that God shunned Gay marriage, which almost every religion on earth does, do you think that you have the right to stand up for those principles?
If you also believed that doing drugs is wrong before God, would you be considered intolerant if you opposed laws that would legalize the use of them?
I have talked with these mormon friends on occasion about this issue because I too was a little upset by the news, and from what I have taken from these conversations is that they believe that God doesn't support Gay marriage, just like he doesn't support a lot of other things like pornography, drugs, etc. If gay marriage becomes law, they will accept that, but to them they are just trying to uphold certain values that they feel should exist under a government that claims to be nation "under God." This is why my buddies said that they have no problem with homosexuals being together, but they are against a law that calls it an ok thing.
A lot of the comments that have been made in this thread show complete intolerance for the mormons, which is exactly what they are being accused of doing. You obviously don't have to agree with them, especially if you are one that doesn't believe in God or believes that God is ok with gay marriage, but it is a good thing to understand where the arguments from the other side are coming from.
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I understand their reasoning behind not support gay marriage from a religious perspective, but what they're trying to do is force their religious viewpoint onto everyone else.
We're not 'one nation under God.' The government is supposed to be 100% secular.