I'm going to continue this statement, as I do have several personal friends whose marriages or intentions to marry are being invalidated by Prop 8's passage in California
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Unfortunately, you're completely ignoring Romans 1. If you're for gay marriage that's fine and all, but don't try to tell people the Bible says it's okay. If you take the entire text into consideration, which people do when studying any other book, then homosexuality, as far as the Bible is concerned, Old and New Testaments, is wrong.
An argument with "Christians" should be focused on why they think that the Bible (or Torah or Quran) should be used to set the standards for everyone in America.
I honestly don't believe that most people voted they way they did because they HATE homosexual people. I think most people just have a strong desire to keep some things in this country the way they have always been. They see marriage as a sacred, God-centered union that in most religious texts is clearly defined as between men and women. They see homosexual unions as separated from that, separate from religion and traditionalism. For them it's something new that should have it's own identity and definition, or for some, should not exist.
Either way, America has taken a hefty dump on traditional marriage anyway, so I don't really understand what the big issue is. The divorce rate is over 50% across the board, so over half the people in this country don't take it as seriously as the Bible does anyway...including "Christians". The New Testament gives ONE category as an out for married Christians and makes it clear that even then it's like a "ripping and tearing of flesh."
I don't think marriage's legal identity has anything to do with the spiritual implications of the practice. For people who believe God has something supernatural to do with the union between a man and a woman, thinking that the legal definition of marriage in this country has any way of activating or even nullifying that power speaks more to the nature of the God they believe in than to how they feel about homosexuals.
There's a bit of rabid over-reaction on both sides of this issue. It's a bummer, really, that something like this can make people act so ugly.
An argument with "Christians" should be focused on why they think that the Bible (or Torah or Quran) should be used to set the standards for everyone in America.
I honestly don't believe that most people voted they way they did because they HATE homosexual people. I think most people just have a strong desire to keep some things in this country the way they have always been. They see marriage as a sacred, God-centered union that in most religious texts is clearly defined as between men and women. They see homosexual unions as separated from that, separate from religion and traditionalism. For them it's something new that should have it's own identity and definition, or for some, should not exist.
Either way, America has taken a hefty dump on traditional marriage anyway, so I don't really understand what the big issue is. The divorce rate is over 50% across the board, so over half the people in this country don't take it as seriously as the Bible does anyway...including "Christians". The New Testament gives ONE category as an out for married Christians and makes it clear that even then it's like a "ripping and tearing of flesh."
I don't think marriage's legal identity has anything to do with the spiritual implications of the practice. For people who believe God has something supernatural to do with the union between a man and a woman, thinking that the legal definition of marriage in this country has any way of activating or even nullifying that power speaks more to the nature of the God they believe in than to how they feel about homosexuals.
There's a bit of rabid over-reaction on both sides of this issue. It's a bummer, really, that something like this can make people act so ugly.
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