Are you telling me that if you didn't believe in god or hell you'd want to **** kids? I don't believe in god and I'm not a creep like you perv.
No, I am giving you examples of how moral decline works when there is no spiritual foundation for morality in society. Some people DO want to **** kids. Who the hell are YOU to dictate to them what is right and wrong? Some people want to **** animals or run around naked in public, masturbate in parks, peek in windows at night, etc. Different strokes for different folks. Once you've established we can't have laws based on arbitrary moral judgement, the walls start to crumble down. I've heard enough from you to know I don't want you leading the charge for what's moral and right.
I didn't think you believed in the bible or jesus? Who cares what the bible says.
About 70% of the general public, last count.
Gays should be able to legally do what married couples do. Share insurance, get tax breaks, own a home together, raise kids, adopt, make life decisions in hospitals just like any other married person. Not seperate but equal either. It's married. They are husband and husband or wife and wife or whatever they want to call it deal with it.
And kid fuckers ought to be able to do what they want, and polygamists, and goat fuckers, and voyers, and exhibitionists, and necrophilacs, etc. How can you deny them their "rights" based on what YOU think is disgusting or inappropriate? It's none of you do-gooder business!
I've always personally supported the idea of civil unions to replace government sanctioned marriage. Mainly because I don't think the government ought to be defining what "marriage" means to the individual. I feel as if this is a solution that would give all sides basically what they want. Gay couples could gain the benefits of traditional married couples, churches and religion gets to keep sanctity of marriage, and government isn't being cajoled into the role of moral arbiter for either side. I think the Federal government could easily reform and modify current law to change "marriage" to "civil partnership" without much hassle, and then the states could follow suit in adopting civil unions to replace traditional marriages.
And before you comment on this, my viewpoint is adopted from a gay couple who are close personal friends of mine. They do NOT support "gay marriage" laws. They have lived together as a gay couple for nearly 30 years. They have insurance together. They own property together. They even held a wedding ceremony in Alabama... in 1986! Went on a honeymoon... have a wedding album... had bridesmaids and groomsmen and everything. They don't have a piece of paper from the state... but BIG DEAL! This is THEIR idea of how to resolve the issue, and I agree with them.
We have laws. We don't need your religion to know not to steal, rape, murder, cheat, lie, be greedy, but guess what? That's exactly what you Christians and Muslims do. Oh yea, I forgot.
Yes, we do have laws... ALL of them are (to some degree) based on a religious moral standard. As I said, when you remove that and replace it with secular standards that can be defined any damn way you please, the walls start to crumble down. You can no longer justify denying others their "rights" under the law, based on what makes YOU uncomfortable. You've given that up! You can never get it back, it's gone for good! We'll simply see more and more outrageous immoral behavior justified, condoned, accepted, and codified into law.