Forcing Same Sex Marriages?

So, Personally, I have nothing against same-sex couples. I don't care if they get married, have sex, etc etc. but this article I'm "quoting" does talk badly about it, just know I don't have the same views as the person who wrote it.

However, I also do not believe in forcing someone to go against their religious views. If a rastafarian comes to America and can prove he's a rastafarian, it's 100% legal for him to smoke weed. This doesn't work for white people claiming to be a rasta, so don't try it.... But anyway, so they have the freedom to follow their religion. Good deal. But now, Christian religion states that it is a sin for a man to lie with another man the way he lies with a woman. So I think that gives churches the right NOT to marry same-sex couples. I think it should be legal, but I think they should have to do it the same way all non-christians do it... go to a court-house, pay the judge $50, become married.

Now, this bill hasn't been passed yet, but if it passes, it will FORCE churches to marry same-sex couples. Why don't we just force all "jesus-freaks" to sin so they'll believe their going to hell?


Read the full article here: http://blog.speakupmovement.org/chu...me-sex-marriage-bill-is-a-threat-to-churches/

 

I don't believe in forcing a group to essentially go against their teachings / beliefs.

On your point about Rastafarian's and that it should be legal for them to smoke weed, religion shouldn't be used as a way to circumvent the law, no matter what it is.

 

I didn't say should, they are, or at least they were once. I'm not sure about now, however. In the early 2000s there was controversy about a rasta that was allowed to smoke weed, but he was indeed allowed to.

Religions that require sacrificing animals can in certain states of the usa, not all of them. In some states it is considered animal cruelty (a felony in fact) to slit a sheep's throat and let it bleed out on a table, in some states its ok as long as its for religious sacrifice.

So maybe rastas are only allowed to smoke weed in certain states? And maybe churches will only have the right to say no to certain people in certain states too.

 

I believe it's completely unfair to force a church to marry a same-sex couple against its teachings. I'll go further than unfair; it's unconstitutional. I'm okay with same-sex marriage, but not with putting it in front of the laws the country was built on.

I feel the same way about Catholic hospitals being forced to offer abortions.

 

Well, I'm totally against same-sex marriage as marriage is deprived from religion. I am yet to hear of a religion in which allows same-sex marriage and so, maybe marriage is a belief, because nothing is there? Nothing is different... It's just a piece of paper stating person A and person B have joined together. Why're so many same-sex couples fighting so hard for something that really doesn't have that many benefits? It baffles me so much. I would also like to state that biologically same-sex's shouldn't be joined in sexual activities, they've not been provided the organs needed to re-produce with one another.

 

There are over 1000 federal benefits for married couples alone.

 

God, they still think like they're living in the 14th century. Let people be who they are.

 

I'm not sure who you're talking about here.... Letting the church be who they are and follow their beliefs would be not to force it...

Letting gay couples be who they are could be seen as forcing the church not to be who they are, but they could also just legalize gay marriage but not force churches to do the marriage.

 

Fuck that, white people can just create their own religions. Now let me show you how I praise the lord: