[CaptainCrunch]

Its sort of funny that some people live in this country fully believing in freedom of belief and speech and other things like that, and then right when there is a conflicting belief emanating from someone else, it is no longer "ok" anymore.

I've got to challenge you on this boss. by putting other peoples beliefs over the the beliefs of people who believe that gay marriage, or a gay life style is wrong, you are taking away thier right to freedom of epression and free will.

The "I believe that marriage is a sacrament that has its roots in God's teachings, and therefore believe that gay marriage is wrong" argument in that sense is hilarious. You know that these people at the same time would stick up for their own right to the religion that they adhere to.

But they honestly believe this and have gained this from thier own personal beliefs and religious studies, what gives you the right to judge that thier interepretation that gay marriage is wrong. By stating this your actually putting the rights and beliefs of one group over the rights and beliefs of another group. What would you say if these people challenged the court over the suppression of thier religious beliefs because the courts gave the rights of homosexual marriage"

But at the same time fight for the suppression of other peoples beliefs. Like gay marriage.

Consittutional law is a fairly complex and dirty subject. You have to ask yourself what the federal governments reaction would be if the Alberta government managed to pull off a referendum and the Alberta population voted that Gay MArriage would not be supported by the people of the province. Would the federal government have the right to ramrod the supreme courts decision through even though a significant percentage of Canada's population voted in a democratic forum that Gay Marriage was wrong. would you say that if the majority of the province voted against gay marriage that they were wrong and stupid? Wouldn't you be impacting on thier beliefs? Wouldn't you be causing a consitutional crisis of epic proportions?



Religious people have a right to believe what they want. No law should be able to take that away from them or stop them from performing sacraments like marriage in the church. The same thing applies to people who believe in or wish to have a gay marriage.

However the governments or the courts have no right to impose thier wills on the church on the matters of belief or sacriment. Therefore if the Supreme Court approves gay marriage and the Catholic Church or any other religion refuses to recogonize that decision and refuses to perform those ceremonies, then there should be nothing that the government of church should do. However my fear is that the government or the courts (through a legal challenge) is going to attempt to force the church to perform those ceremonies.


Edit: I should clarify here...I was not really aiming this at anyone in particular, nor labelling all religious people as fanatics who aim for the abolishment of anything not inside of their beliefs.

You can't force your beliefs to supercede religious beliefs, you can't call people fanatics because they have a different belief system then you. The government and courts have no jurisdiction to change thousand year old beliefs or scriptures.