Strange how it is only you, and those like you, that even suggest a return to slavery.
You are the one advocating that we allocate rights by popular vote. That would mean that the majority could vote away equal rights but still require those who are "less than" to pay an equal portion of taxes. That's slavery, ask Genseca.
As to equality, how is it "equal" when you force others to accept your view of moral behaviour? If I owned a business what is it to you who I hire? If people don't like my policies they are free to shop elsewhere. What gives you the right to dictate to me who I should hire?
You've mixed two subjects here. In the first sentence you ask about moral behavior. No one is forcing you to change your opinion--it's your right to hate. But it is not your right to persecute those you hate. Nor is it your right to force those you hate to obey YOUR relgious tenets. Somehow you have gotten the idea that you have some God-given RIGHT to pass laws to force your beliefs on others--no one is doing that to you. No one is suggesting laws to make you behave gay or to like gays, you get to keep and cling to all your antiquated hates and fears, the law just doesn't let you beat others with them. Giving gays equal rights does nothing to you, your religion, or your right to hate.
The Constitution guarantees equality for all. You don't like that, you WANT to discriminate and thereby punish those who don't live as you think they should. This is an especially important provision of the Constitution when there is a huge majority that hates a tiny minority--we need some way to protect the minority from the depredations of the majority. In this case you just happen to be in the majority. Turn it around, pretend that you were the one on the receiving end of the hatred you express, would you feel that those people were following the Love Others As Yourself rule of Jesus?
Again you rely on a lie. I have never proposed a theocracy, or supported one. IMO God, through Christ, will establish His rule on earth following the tribulation period.
When you advocate laws to force others to obey YOUR religious beliefs that is the hallmark of theocracy.
However, YOU are not satisfied with the traditional morality that the country has enjoyed since its foundation. Thus YOU are the one forcing your own belief of what is moral, or not moral, on others. Then when traditionalists oppose your actions, and the teaching of those "morals" to our children, and we are the majority still, then you lie, and say that it is we who are trying to force our beliefs on others.
Slavery was traditional in the country's founding time, so was the ownership of women, preventing women from voting, denying women the right to own property, and the indiscriminate slaughter of the indigenous peoples. In some places killing women for adultery, female circumsicision and genital mutilation are traditional, does that make them right?
I'm not forcing my beliefs on anyone, I am asking for the same right to believe what I believe as you have, and the same right to live my life according to my beliefs as you have to live according to your beliefs. Gay people having the right to marry has no effect on you or your marriage, does it? What effect do you
think it has?
So, who is the "Ayatollah"?
Look it up. How can you have a Doctorate in Theology and not know the term "Ayatollah"?
No one is trying to "punish" gay people. Repeating that lie will not make it anymore true.
What are you trying to do then? Wouldn't it feel like punishment to you if YOU were denied marriage because gay people didn't think you were worthy of it?
When you speak of "proof" you have no proof from any study done, the genome code, or any other source, that homosexuality is a natural trait. The best you can do is claim that certain animals participate in similar behaviour. There are some studies that have indicated some events in the birthing process, such as testosterone levels, may contribute to the deviancy, or even environmental factors. However, you have no proof that the behaviour is anymore then one of choice. Even the "twin studies" do not support your belief.
Actually, it isn't PROOF, but evidence. Are you an American? Do you recall that a person is innocent until proven GUILTY in our system of jurisprudence? Right now gay people are being denied equality with NO PROOF of guilt. Any worthless, scum-sucking, drug-dealing, wife-beating, child molestor on death row can marry is he can find a willing mate--but gay people can't, that's justice?
There is a mountain of evidence to show that homosexuality is a natural variation in sexual behavior in almost all the higher animals. I can supply you with the material, but would you read it? No, probably not. And the reason that you think the twin studies don't support the genetic basis for homosexuality is due to the fact that you don't have enough scientific education and you think that "identical twins" are identical. I can give you a source that talks about the biological basis of homosexuality in a video presentation by Dr. Cynthia Chappelle, a researcher who has two sons, one of whom is gay.
So, while you try to BS your way through the topic, it is just that. BS.
Your refusal to learn is hardly BS on my part. Your education is lacking in some areas as I have amply demonstrated on other threads. Pony up, DOT, learn about the science.
