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Spain today passed legislation making homosexual marriage legal nationwide. They are the third country to institute such legislation, the first two being Netherlands and Belgium. Canada's House of Commons passed legislation Tuesday that would legalize gay marriage; its Senate is expected to pass the bill into law by the end of July.
There's been an outcry from the conservatives in these countries, but they are finding themselves increasingly in the minority, as the general populace tends to support gay marriage in these countries.
While I applaud these events as advancing progress of expanding civil rights, I worry about the dissention. With lunatics already out there bombing abortion clinics and killing dozens of innocent people, what effect will this have? Will the anti-homosexual religious extremists start forming their own cells of violence, losing touch with the message of peace that every major holy book in the world professes? Will the violent religious fanatics we currently associate only with Islamist Jihads gain recruits in the Christian, Jewish, or Hindu ranks?
And why, WHY, are people willing to maim, murder, and destroy, sacrificing by their own rules their own souls, in order to stop those who disagree with them?
A positive event, this one in Spain, but I worry about the dissenters. Most are peaceful people. Some are not.
There's been an outcry from the conservatives in these countries, but they are finding themselves increasingly in the minority, as the general populace tends to support gay marriage in these countries.
While I applaud these events as advancing progress of expanding civil rights, I worry about the dissention. With lunatics already out there bombing abortion clinics and killing dozens of innocent people, what effect will this have? Will the anti-homosexual religious extremists start forming their own cells of violence, losing touch with the message of peace that every major holy book in the world professes? Will the violent religious fanatics we currently associate only with Islamist Jihads gain recruits in the Christian, Jewish, or Hindu ranks?
And why, WHY, are people willing to maim, murder, and destroy, sacrificing by their own rules their own souls, in order to stop those who disagree with them?
A positive event, this one in Spain, but I worry about the dissenters. Most are peaceful people. Some are not.