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Originally Posted by scout
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The point I was trying to make, albeit not very well, was that you can't possibly have it both ways. Just to use homosexuality because it seems to be the most important (11 states voted to ban marriage this election). You can't use some scripture from the Bible to pass judgement on the homosexual agenda because they are abominations and still follow Christ's command of love your neighbor and do not judge, lest you be judged. It seems to me, and I could be wrong, that if you are a Christian you aren't allowed to pick and choose what parts you will follow and those you will ignore. However hypocritical I may think it is, this isn't even what really bothers me.
The Republican Right does not own a monopoly on morality. You have morals? Fantastic, everybody needs some, right? You get them from the Bible? Fantastic, there's lot of good stuff in there. However, just because you gleaned a little insight from a book you picked up doesn't mean you've cornered the market on righteousness. There are a lot of good, moral people on both sides of the aisle that never cracked a holy book or ever set foot on sacred ground.
My problem with these people isn't that they are Christian or born again Evangelicals, whatever. My problem lies in the fact that they are trying to push their agenda, which is based on their
perceived notions of what is and isn't moral, on me. I don't care what they believe. Believe what you want to, but don't try to legislate your faith into my country's laws.
One side seems dead set to do just that and the other set seems dead set to avoid it all costs. That's why America seems so divided right now. There has to be compromise. Compromise that works for everyone of every faith, sex, ethnicity and sexual preference.