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The title of this thread is misleading.

People do not chose their orientation. It is biologically caused. You are stuck with it no matter what you may want.

I really think that being gay is just part of who someone is, and should not be discriminated against. Curse Bush for not recognising this!

Essentially yes.

However, the title of this thread is vague enough that it could mean either one.

oh, I'm not upset or anything.

I'm sure the mistake wasn't on purpose.

I just felt it needed to be clarified.



Wow, a little touchy aren't we?

I didn't mean to cause you heart ache with my clarification either.

But I'm quite willing to discuss the topic itself, now that the title's problems have been called into view.

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Never said you could or that you should.



You're welcome.


Now, on to the actual topic itself:



The fact is while America has it better then a lot of places (the Middle East for instance, where homosexuals are executed) it is still appalling how hypocritical this country is.

We claim we support freedom and the rights of the individual and then go and take away rights, as well as poke our noses into the business of others.

The only time such an action is justified is when it protects others, and ganking homosexuals does nothing of the sort.

This is the action of a self righteous, evil minority fooling a large portion of a mainstream religion that homosexuality is sinful, and fooling a large portion of the secular mainstream population that homosexuality is gross and dangerous to children.

Its not a good thing, this line of events in America, and it does not reflect well on Christianity.

Conversion rates for Christianity are getting virtually raped by this bad press and this bigotry on the part of the church.

Quite a few Christians are actually leaving the Catholic Church (and other sects too) because they won't put up with the hatred and vitriol.

So I assert that this is hurting Christianity a lot too, and could eventually lead to a notable degradation of the entire religion.

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There are gay sheep?

The Bible also says that you shouldn't wear two kinds of cloth woven together and that anyone who is even slightly disabled should not be a priest. That doesn't mean that we have ot do as it says! A lot of the rules in the Bible apply to stuff that happened thousands of years ago. It's just not relevant. Plus, a lot of it contradicts itself.

I say gay marriage is fine by me. Chop off the Jesus fingers!
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I would guess that it's a combination of the legal priveledges and social acceptance of married couples. Along with the desire to publicly declare their devotion in the accepted manner.