First of all, try and express yourself a little bit. Explain just what the first sentence is supposed to mean, then tell me why that is relevant to what I have said?
All right, let me break out the Crayolas and draw you a picture.
The post I responded to self-righteously proclaimed that we should "do unto others as we would have them do unto us." I am questioning the relevance of this remark, since using it would imply that while we oppose same-sex marriage for others, we don't want those others to prevent US from marrying someone of the same sex. Which is nonsense, obviously, so we clearly ARE doing unto others exactly what we want done unto us as well.
And I'm a conservative, BTW.
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't care.
Now you're operating under the assumption that every bigot here is a Christian and not a Jew; I don't make such assumptions.
Actually, I'm operating under the assumption that "bigot" is just a word you like to throw around as a generic condemnation, presumably in the hopes that it will put people on the defensive and make them too cowed to stand up to you. As far as I'm concerned, you might as well resort to calling me a "mean old poopyhead", because it'll produce more or less the same effect.
In the Old Testament, eating shellfish and pork were sins.
No, really? You don't say.
I never said they weren't sins, Chuckles. I said they weren't listed as "abominations", and they weren't. God condemned different things for different reasons, and while pork and shellfish are no longer the food poisoning hazards they were in more primitive times, homosexuality doesn't appear to have ever reached a point of acceptability in God's eyes that I've noticed, unless your Bible has some books in it that mine doesn't.
For you Christians, I offered other verses.
Yes, I was deeply impressed by your vast ability to irrelevantly confuse totally unrelated Biblical issues into one big mess.
For example, I asked the one bigot if he thought Christ would approve of referring to homosexuals as rats and mice.
Which is between you and him, and has nothing to do with me.
I also quoted "Do Unto Others As You Would Have Done To You."
And I have explained, as simplistically as I could manage, how ludicrously inappropriate that particular quote was.
I also quoted Corinthians and the chapter about love.
Which was so completely apropos of nothing that I didn't even consider it worth commenting on. I still don't.
I also mentioned heterosexual sodomy and wondered why you bigots weren't as voraciously against that.
While I appreciate this point-by-point recap of your deeply fascinating post, I should mention that I read it the first time, I'm well aware of what you said, and my problem was that I thought it was nonsense, not that I didn't
grok the words.
However, I do have to ask if you honestly believe that the problem people have with homosexuality is simply concerning the orifice involved. Since the exact same reaction is applied to lesbians, who often don't use any sort of penetration of any orifice, I have to wonder how you could have arrived at this conclusion.
You people just don't have an answer. You bigots and hypocrites are totally against homosexuality, or, sins you don't commit. But when it comes to sins sins and abominations you do commit, you're quiet as mice about them.
You people? I'm not twins, sweetie. And I'm not sure what it is you claim I don't have an answer for, since you haven't really asked me any questions. All you've done is declaim.
I'm not even going to touch the absurdity of your remark about "sins you commit", since unless you've been peeking through my bedroom window, you have no way of knowing which sins I do or don't commit, nor are they at all relevant to the discussion at hand.
But let's just remember that this is not a Christian nation; it was not founded on the Christians faith, so let's quit legislating religious edict.
Let's just remember that this nation CERTAINLY wasn't founded on atheism, and I'll stop trying to legislate my beliefs just as soon as you stop trying to legislate yours.
Civil marriage is a legal contract. Currently, it is discriminates on the basis of gender.
It discriminates on a lot of bases. Sex is not one of them, since anyone of any sex who meets the legal requirements of age, mental capacity, etc. may get married exactly like anyone else.
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
Well, that explains why he was such a crappy, boring writer.