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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Sure women and minorities have equal rights.
What you want is a certain relationship to have special privileges. Marriage between a man and a women has been a relationship governments have deemed worthy of protecting and fostering. It long ago was defined and separated for special treatment.
Today the LGBT community is demanding that same special distinction and the privileges that come with it for a relationship between two men or two women.
They aren't speaking for poligamists who would like that same distinction with its privileges or the many nonsexual patnerships we find in society. They are speaking for themselves.
I'm not in favour of any of it. I like Chick-Fil-A have a right to view marriage as our society has always viewed it; between a man and a women. Moreover Tim Thomas, Chick-Fil-A, and this Christian lobby group has a right to express those views without being bullied or shot at.
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And gay couples have the right to express the same affection for each other as straight couples have the right to, without being treated as inferior by the government to which they pay taxes. They have the right to exist freely, without threat of violence or abuse from people who disagree with their opinions.
Again, this shooting was tragic, as is any shooting, but it does not mean that Christian groups, by and large, are being terrorized by the LGBT community, so stop acting as such, unless you're prepared to also take the blame for the many, many atrocities the Christian religion and its various sects have been responsible for over the last 2000 years.