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Originally Posted by willravel
If you intentionally said that as a joke: Hahahaha. 
If you're serious: Do you know what the word "contradiction" means? Something that contains contradictory elements. A See synonym of opposite. You said "There is no such thing as gay marriage", then you followed with the statemet "gay can get married all the time". I sincerly hope you see the contradiction. I hope you also see that statements like these in opening your response will result in people either skipping over your post, or already having an opinion of you before they get to read what you get to say that's really important. |
I didn't notice it at first, but I can see where it looks odd. My point was that there is only "marriage". Not "gay marriage" "student marriage" "athlete marriage" or any other way you want to categorize it. If you argue for "gay marriage", you argue for some special status for those who practice homosexuality. You elevate their behavior above that of others.
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I'm condeming the church for acting in a bigotous manner, which does not accuratly represent the God that they worship. Just like I don't agree with the crusades and the inquisition.
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I'm glad you know how GOD thinks, you should let everyone else know cause there's been some confusion about that.
And if condemning the actions of people is bigoted, then every jury that returns a verdict of "guilty" is bigoted.
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People with mohawks arn't being denied the eight to a civil union last I heard, so this is different.
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Except in one or two states, there are no civil unions allowed for anyone. It's those states that are denying everyone not homosexual the right to have civil unions.
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What a wonderful opinion that I completly disagree with because of my set of morals. The difference between you're treatment of gays and past treatment of african-americans is negligable when taking into account what is socially acceptable in both different time frames. BTW, how many gay bashings are there every year?
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If what you say is true, we cannot condemn any past actions that were legal. We can't condemn slavery, because it was socially acceptable. We can't condemn Jim Crow laws, because they were socially acceptable. And extending that logic, today many in society feel that homosexual sex is immoral/disgusting. So you can't condemn them either, because it's socially acceptable.
And as for gay bashings, i'm not sure how many there are. But how many nerd bashings, fatty bashings, poor bashings, sex offender bashings, christian bashings, muslim bashings, that-guy-has-better-shoes-than-me bashings, gang bashings, or any other segment of society bashings are there each year? If you want to get rid of "X" bashing, that's one thing. But you can't single out one of those forms of behavior and start trying to elevate its status above the others.