Do you believe that you are entitled to more because you are straight?
Did you have to ask for permission to use the term married?
You as a Christian, are in no way threatened or abused by what another couple (gay or straight) calls their relationship. So why make yourself an obstruction? Why deny gays the right to have their union recognized by the state as a marriage?
Returning to the Catholics, do you think that the state should not recognized remarried people because it does not fall into their views of marriage?
Do you think that you deserve that title more than a gay couple? If so, why? I want to know why? I want to understand what this phantom threat is.
And, in the matter of marriage, we are treated exactly the same. Marriage has always and forever been a covenant between a man and a woman.
I am exercising my right as a citizen in this country to mold the society we live in to what I believe is best. This is no different than someone who pushes for any change in how we live as a society.
Marriage has always and forever been a covenant between a man and a woman.
My objection to gay marriage is that one group is taking a covenant between a man and woman and twisting it to mean whatever they want it to mean.
I am exercising my right as a citizen in this country to mold the society we live in to what I believe is best.
There is no phantom threat in the way most would define a threat.
Do you believe it is your, or society's, job to outlaw sin?
Both of these sentences are demonstrably false.
You are willing to push, to keep groups of people who aren't harming anyone, from having happy lives?
I have no inherent power to keep anyone from having a happy life.
Nor do we have the power to make someone's life happy.
Your life is happy if you make it happy.
I am simply voicing a desire that marriage be exactly what it is, the union of a man and a wife. If someone claims there life is unhappy because of my belief, then they have problems.
I guess you have to have a problem
If you want to invent a contraption
First you cause a train wreck
Then you put me in traction
Well, first came an action
And then a reaction
But you can't switch around
For your own satisfaction
Well, you put my house down, then got mad
At my reaction
Well, in every complicated situation
You're the human relation
Makin' sense of it all
Take a whole lot a concentration
Well, you can blame my baby
For her pregnant ma
And if there's one of these
On the order for laws
It's that you just can't take the effect
And make it the cause
Well, you can't take the effect
And make it the cause
I didn't rob a bank
Because you made up a law
When you people robbin' Peter
Don't you blame Paul
Can't take the effect
And make it the cause
I ain't the reason that you gave me no reason to return your call
You built a house of cards and got shocked when you saw them fall
Well are you sayin' I'm innocent?
In fact the reverse
But if you're headin' to the grave
You don't blame the hearse
You're like a little girl yellin' at her brother
'Cause you lost his ball
Well you keep blamin' me for what you did
And that ain't all
The way you clean up a wreck
Is enough to get one pause
You seem to forget
Just how this song started
I'm reactin' to you because you left me broken-hearted
See, you just can't take the effect
And make it the cause
Can't take the effect
And make it the cause
I didn't rob a bank
Because you made up a law
Blame people robbin' Peter
Don't you blame Paul
Can't take the effect
And make it the cause
This is not true. See Ancient Rome, See Druids, See Native Americans, and other examples of ancient cultures. Let it be a lesson on using absolute language.
I don't think this is a problem. If gays didn't think that marriage had meaning, they wouldn't be fighting so hard for it. To many both gay and straight, to say that you are married means love and commitment.
No, but I believe it is my right to urge my society toward what I think is best for my society. My objections to gay marriage are no more different than a person fighting to eliminate the death penalty. They would prefer living in a society without the death penalty. I would prefer to live in a society that recognizes that marriage is a covenant between a man and a woman. Simple as that.
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Both of these sentences are demonstrably false.
That seems to be the gist of the argument that your side continually makes. So I never had any doubt you would believe that. I cannot help the fact that you believe something that is not true.
I have no inherent power to keep anyone from having a happy life. Nor do we have the power to make someone's life happy. Your life is happy if you make it happy. I am simply voicing a desire that marriage be exactly what it is, the union of a man and a wife. If someone claims there life is unhappy because of my belief, then they have problems.
Quote:This is not true. See Ancient Rome, See Druids, See Native Americans, and other examples of ancient cultures. Let it be a lesson on using absolute language.
I stand corrected. There have been societies that have at one time or another seen fit to recognize gay marriages. There have also been societies that have recognized child sacrifice, polygamy, cannibalism and what not. This in and of itself does not make it right. (Don't misunderstand, I am not equating gay marriage to child sacrifice or cannibalism. Just making a point.)
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That is the point. Marriage does have meaning. It is a covenant between a man and a woman.
You are exactly right that all of us have the ability to influence our society for the better or for the worse. I submit that adhereing to the traditional meaning of marriage is for the better.
Others think differently. I won't even argue that believing otherwise is not going to spell the end of society as we know it (which I admit some people in this country seem to believe, thus answering your threat question.) I believe it is for the best.
The problem is that we never really know what is for the best until we walk down the opposite path, and even then only after many years. I will probably never know whether I am right in my thinking or you are right in yours. We will both long be dead when historians can make that unbiased observation.
Oh really? Let us say then that I decided that clowns should not be able to marry. Not for any good reason, but simply b/c I don't like clowns and don't want to live in a society in which they can marry.
So I push and work and strive and vote in order to not only remove your right to marry, but to dissolve your pre-existing marriage if I can. And let's say I am successful. Are you going to tell me that I have no power to make your life happy or unhappy? My guess would be no.
Most of all, I want you to explain, in depth, what your motivations are for denying happiness to others.
WHY do you wish to have no gays married in society?
How does it affect you personally if they do marry?
These are the important questions on this topic, and they go unanswered by you or anyone on your side.
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WHY do you wish to have no gays married in society?
Asked and answered. I'm really beginning to question your reading comprehension skills my friend.
Never said it did. Again, based on Cy's and Debra's accusations, I decided to talk to her about it. Chalk it up to wanting to find out if she thought I was a bigot for believing differently than she does. We had an interesting chat and she assured me that while she wished I felt differently, she did not think I was in anyway bigoted. That's good enough for me. I only brought the conversation up to make a point.
I think our society decided what was write when our founding document declared all men to be equal in rights and stature. It is simply taking humanity a long, long time to come to terms with the implications of this decision, because so much of history has been based in the concept of one group's superiority over another, for perfectly stupid reasons.
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CoastalRat wrote:Never said it did. Again, based on Cy's and Debra's accusations, I decided to talk to her about it. Chalk it up to wanting to find out if she thought I was a bigot for believing differently than she does. We had an interesting chat and she assured me that while she wished I felt differently, she did not think I was in anyway bigoted. That's good enough for me. I only brought the conversation up to make a point.
You are fooling yourself, CoastalRat. In your previous post, you admitted that your friend believes that you are "closed minded." See your statement:
"She does believe that I am a bit close-minded when it comes to gay marriage since she would like to marry her partner and believes that right should be available to her. But she tells me she understands why I disagree and respects that opinion."
The only thing you have established is that your friend is tolerant and respectful of your "christian beliefs," but you do not extend to her the same tolerance and respect. In your friend's words, you are CLOSE-MINDED.
Your lesbian friend wants to marry her partner of 15 years. Your friend believes that right to marry her partner should be available to her. You disagree. You believe that homosexual relationships are immoral. You stated, based on your "christian beliefs," you will fight to prevent her from exercising the right to marry her partner of 15 years. You don't want to live in a society that allows gay people to marry the same-sex persons of their choice. Accordingly, due to your moral intolerance of your friend's choice of a marriage partner, you will fight to abuse the power of the state to IMPOSE your morals on her. You will fight to abuse the power of the state to prevent her from exercising her right to marry the person of her choice. You are advocating societal and governmental OPPRESSION of your "friend."
You need to learn the meaning of the words BIGOT and BIGOTRY:
big.ot [hypocrite, bigot]: one obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.
big.ot.ry: the state of mind of a bigot; also: behavior or beliefs ensuing from such a state of mind.
Those words describe YOU and what YOU'RE doing to your "friend."
Well, now that Debbie has spoken up, we now know that cycloTKO are bigots just like they accuse everyone else of being. Yay! We can be one big happy bigoted family. So, what do you bigots have to say now?
