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Originally Posted by MarchHare
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This picture brings me to another interesting question--of the many men who are staunchly against gay marriage, how many do you think have beat it to lesbian porn?
Do people realize that by trying to prevent gay marriage, you aren't going to actually stop people from being gay, right? They're going to keep doing what they're doing, only you're going to judge and restrict them based on it. Pretty sure the Bible says that only God should judge, but hey, I've only read it a couple times.
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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Not too be too a-holish, but Christians have been persecuting others for thousands of years. They aren't even being persecuted against, its just some of the things they used to be or even still are completely against are now becoming accepted by the majority of people. Religion is losing its hold on the world, except in the Islamic world, and most religious people don't like that. But thats just not going to change anytime soon.
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This reminds me of a quote from Jon Stewart (though out of context, as it was referencing the birth control debate of a few months ago):
You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.
This is not a war on anyone's religion. As mentioned above, no fanatical gay rights enthusiasts are going to stand outside of your church on Sunday morning and refuse to let you enter.
So you're called a bigot? Called out for your intolerance? Oh, I'm sorry.
Homosexuals are having basic rights refused to them. At the very least, they are denied the pleasure of being able to call their partner a husband or a wife. In other cases they're being verbally and emotionally harassed, and in extreme cases some are beaten to the point of death simply because of the person they love.
I'm sorry, but someone on an internet forum telling you that your views are dated and that you're a bigot is a whole lot different than someone breaking into your home, vandalizing your property and beating you senseless, as recently happened to a woman in Texas, solely because she was a lesbian.
When I regularly see reports of gay rights activists beating right wing conservatives because of their beliefs, then I'll believe that it's an "attack" on your religion. Until then, it's merely the religious right throwing a hissy fit because they don't believe it's okay.
(And if you wondered how backwards this country can still be from time to time, in the last month, a pastor of a mostly-white congregation in Mississippi refused to allow a black couple to be married in his church. Because "five or six" people complained. This country has a lot of places that are still really, really screwed up.)