> -----Original Message----- > From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:mary...@cfwebstore.com] > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 2:38 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Huckabee v Stewart: Gay Marriage > > >And that's kind of the point: marriage in this country can be a > completely > >secular, non-religious affair. So how can we possibly justify > refusing it > >to any group of citizens for what is clearly and completely a > religious > >reason? > > > Sorry but it's not that clearly a religious issue, although certainly > most of the strong support for a ban against gay marriage comes from > the religious right. But people often see it as a further erosion of > the traditional family, as something that will open the way for more > pro-gay curriculum in schools, etc. There is a very large segment of > our population that doesn't believe gays should be openly discriminated > against...but does not want them becoming mainstream either. It's a > simplification of things to label it as strictly a religious issue.
It is absolutely a religious issue. There is no secular evidence that homosexuality is a negative: nothing that indicates it adversely affects species propagation, nothing that indicates that homosexuals (despite nasty rumors to the contrary) are any more likely to be criminals or pedophiles. Nothing that indicates that homosexuals consume more than any other segment or fail to give back to society any more than any other. You can mention "concerns for the traditional family" but I've never, not once, heard an organized refusal of gays of rights that wasn't religiously motivated: ask those people where the "traditional family" is defined and they'll say, I almost guarantee it, in the Bible (which is rife with polygamy and incest in any case). It doesn't matter if people think that they're "icky" - personal opinion doesn't matter here: what matter is if people think that the United States should discriminate against this group (or indeed any group of law-abiding, productive citizens). Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:282724 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
