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Originally Posted by filtherton
Your position seems to be that nobody has any reasonable justification for finding any kind of specific motivational content in the bible because no one has the "right" interpretation of what the bible means. I disagree.
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Nope, my position is, don't use the bible as an excuse to persecute people you don't like. If you don't want to have a homosexual wedding, that's fine. Don't. But don't forbid other people to do it using the bible as your reason. Find a REAL reason if you want to outlaw it - namely, one that shows how gay marriage hurts others who are not in the marriage. And since two guys getting married isn't going to hurt anyone, don't forbid them to do it.
My other position is, if you're going to live by the bible, then live by the whole bible. Don't cherrypick the ideas you want to live by and then try to force other people to live by the same carefully selected ideas. This whole gay marriage debate could be ended if the "religious" side would follow the advice of their own book and "judge not lest ye be judged." But for some strange reason that's not a very commonly followed mandate, even though it's in the bible. I would postulate that it's not followed very much because it's a lot more fun to judge everybody else and to believe yourself to be superior.