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Originally Posted by mused76
Nobody is limiting freedom in the bedroom but they are attempting to stop marriage between the same sex. Same sex marriages, in my *opinion*, are not justified and only show self-love due to the fact that gay marriages are based on falling in love for the same sex - the same being whether it male or female. Marriage is sacred and meant to be between a male and a female in my opinion and in the Catholic church's opinion. The purpose of marriage: love and pro-create. This is all besides the point.
My main point in beginning this thread was to state that the majority spoke out and won. This isn't just Bush or the "government" stopping rights. The government is made up of American citizens who voted on gay marriage bans this election and have voted on other issues in the past. And the majority, at whatever time it was, voted in presidents who were either for or against issues.
The minority does have rights. They have rights to protest, to leave the country, to get petitions, to lead marches to the state capitals, etc. They don't have these rights in many countries or just recently received them in areas such as Iraq. The minority has rights so please do not say they don't. Whether or not the majority agrees is another thing.
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Yes, we have the right to challenge authority to explain and defend their actions. That is why were so vehement to get the "moral majority" to defend it's decision, but we mostly get stone-walled.
Banning gay marriage (or defining marriage as between a man and a woman) does nothing to stop homosexuality and serves only as a way to deny gay couples the right to tax benefits provided by the government for married couples. If your defense is that marriages are the church's domain. Then call gay couples "Civic Unions" or "Common-Law Marriage".
I don't know what to make of the "Self-Love" argument you made. It's love between to seperate individual people who just happen to be the same gender. Are you insinuating that the church has the right the define emotion? To validate what is love and what isn't? Please eloborate.