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Originally posted by The_Dude
people have said this before, you don’t think it's right for them to do this, but just because you don’t think something isn’t right doesn’t make it wrong.
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And just because someone thinks something is right doesn't make it right.
A quick note, most politicians are religious. Look at the President, one of the things he did during 9/11 and the aftermath was call on God to help America. At one point he even called this war a crusade. Separating politics from religion is very, very hard. If it wasn't we wouldn't be having the problem presented in this thread, the driver’s license thread or others.
Example: Senator A gets voted into office because he's a good man and his views are the same as the people who put him in office. It just so happens that the views that got him into office are Christian. Odds are if Senator A wants to stay in office he's going to vote the way of the people who put in office want him to. Also this guy is never going to vote to recognize homosexuals legally if he doesn't in his religion.
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Originally posted by The_Dude
we're talking about recognizing them legally, not religiously, so it doesn’t really matter what god/pope/clergy/priest/whatever religious official thinks about this.
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Again this is the grand United States of America and sometimes you can't talk law with religion. Lobbyists hold lots of sway.
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Originally posted by Minx
They have just as many rights (as HUMAN BEINGS) as anyone else.
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That's another problem; some people don't consider homosexuals as human beings. Same thing was true with lepers hundreds of years ago. Also, mentally retarded people don't always have rights depending on how bad the retardation is.