[citation][nom]hoof_hearted[/nom]Ok, as a Christian, I believe homosexuality is a sin. However, it's no worse than any other sexual sin that pretty much just as prevalent in Christianity as they are out of it, so I don't know why Christians in general get so worked up just over homosexuality. [edit]
The reason it is such a hot issue, is that people acknowledge other sexual sins as sins. For the most part, they don't try to convince everyone else that they are morally right. Presently, pedophiles know what they are doing is wrong and acknowledge it as such. Prostitutes, necropheliacs, beastiality, etc are all defined as fetish behavior and regarded by society as such. I am sure after time people will try and turn all of these things into some morally acceptable social right as well.
But for now, the pro-gay movement is forcing the teaching of something most Christians are against in our public schools which we have to pay for. Forcing us to support something that goes against our beliefs. I am sure it wouldn't be such a hot issue if there was just an "agree to disagree" stand, but this is not the case. [edit]
They will not stop until they have completely dominated society with their point of view including: teaching it in schools to our children, using our tax dollars to pay for legal issues, trumping freedom of speech of religious authorities by definging it as hate crime to speak against it.How about people in prison who commit murder? Just because you don't believe in murder, why should they be denied the right to do so?[/citation]
sigh...this is such a lame (and OLD) argument. pedophilia, bestiality, and necrophilia all violate basic societal understandings of CONSENT. a homosexual relationship and/or marriage is one that occurs between two CONSENTING ADULTS. therefore, any attempt to push these "options" as morally acceptable options is (hopefully) doomed to failure.
your one possibility there is prostitution. and as another poster noted, there already IS a push in some places to legalize prostitution as being something that occurs between consenting adults. obviously, child prositution/sex trafficking is NOT being pushed for legal or moral acceptance, because they do NOT occur between consenting adults. but you missed one--polygamy.
personally, i mostly feel prostitution should be legalized. however, society also has a right to limit destructive behavior and in the fact that prostitution can result in increased STDs in the population as a whole, it should be legalized AND regulated. somehow. same thing with polygamy. well, not the STD part, lol. but it needs to be regulated or the law written so that what the "unofficial" mormons do isn't possible--namely, one guy having multiple wives, only one of which is "legal," and so the others all file for welfare as unwed mothers.
as to your bible quotes, the leviticus one is silly because it's part of a whole book of rules/laws that are absolutely ridiculous today, and it's disingenuous to pick ONE rule and cry that it should be enforced and ignore all the other "commands of god." and the romans one was by a power-hungry narcissist (who had some sexual issues of his own), and directed at a group of people doing far more than one sexual behavior that would horrify some christians today.
as for forcing others to accept or believe differently--that can't be done and no one is trying to do that. others can believe what they want; but not all beliefs can be codified into law in a free, just, and democratic society. school teachings? some would have our public schools teach that black people are inferior, as that is their belief. i would suppose they are quite angry that equality among races is taught now by taxpayer-funded schools. how is your complaint any different? and homosexuals AREN'T asking or demanding that children be taught to BE homosexual, for god's sake.
and, no, speaking your personal opinion(s) is NOT defined as hate speech, nor are homosexuals requesting that it be.
Facebook
Twitter