Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage

[BitterYoungMatador2]

So if it doesn't affect my corner of the world I should be fine with what I see as the decay of morals and society?

Murders in the inner-city don't affect me where I live, either. I'd still like to see them stopped or at least reduced.

You still haven't told me how this directly impacts you. How does two homosexuals marrying directly impact your life?

 

[old_tony]

You still haven't told me how this directly impacts you. How does two homosexuals marrying directly impact your life?

How does two homosexuals NOT being able to marry directly impact your life?

 

[WriteThinking]

Imma type this one last time, and this time I'm gonna' type it slow so everyone can get it.

God never wrote a book. Okay? We clear on this? He never sat down with a feather and an ink well and wrote a forking book. It's not "The Book of God." It's the "Book about God." Again, we good on this? If He had, he probably would not have done it in a way that could be interpreted 98 different ways by 98 different groups. Know who wrote a book? Man did. Man who had biases and special interests and things he liked and didn't like, just like us.

Don't be condescending. You know that I know that God didn't "write" the Bible.

That doesn't mean it's not a good book, though. Or even, not the Good Book, and still worthy of being referenced and followed as a guide to living well and living right if it's what someone believes in and that's what they decide to do. There's certainly no denying that lots of people choose to do it.

For the most part, it's not a book that can be interpreted 98 different ways, either. There are pretty uniform beliefs and discussions of themes within it that cross even however many denominations of Christianity there are, because there are ways of being that emerge and there should be evidence to show for it as people go along and grow along such a path. I could go into any Christian church and still know that I'm in a Christian church because the message is much the same, the expectations are the same, the language and buzzwords are the same, and, hopefully -- especially -- the actions resulting from all of them should be the same, too.

 

[zagoshe]

YAY #LOVEWINS -- Well, unless you either disagree with the ruling or are a Christian.

Then we can call you all kinds of names, mock your faith, shout you down and refer to you as evil....

 

[Songbird]

Given how much pressure there is from both sides, I suspect death is the only way these current justices will be replaced.

Nothing a poison tipped umbrella can't remedy.

 

[Starman]

Interesting ...

Counties getting out of the marriage business. More power to them.

Two counties out of marriage business for good after Supreme Court ruling | AL.com

Yeah, infantile pissing and stomping of the feet, ultimately forking over the huge majority of residents wishing to get married who are NOT homosexual. Awesome.

fork the government over so it doesn't work for anybody. Teabag nirvana.

 

[Songbird]

It forces me to live in a society that now sanctions something that my religious beliefs tell me is a sin. There never was a law before sanctioning sin as "normal." Now there is. Abortion -- a heinous sin -- has wrongly been considered legal now for 40-plus years but it isn't considered "normal" by society. In fact, most who partake in that at least have a sense of shame and try to keep private what they've done.

Just because more people do something doesn't turn something that was wrong into something that is right. As more and more murders occur should we decide that murder is OK? Apparently Kagen, Sotomayor, Bader Ginsberg, Kennedy and Breyer would.

You still belive in that whole sham called God, huh? The root of your hate, and fear, lies within that problem.

Free yourself of the back-alley abortion known as religion and you, and others here, might start to enjoy a sense of freedom.

 

[franticscribe]

""None of these bills would stop [gay marriage]," Courser said. "What they'll do is protect those folks from being forced to perform gay marriages as part of their official duties."

Um, how would that not stop gay marriage? Most clergy certainly wouldn't sign off

While it may be true that "most" clergy wouldn't sign off, there are more than plenty that would. Clergy in the Unitarian Universalist, UCC, Episcopal and a few other churches have been performing rites of marriage or union for LGBT Christians for some time now. Their ranks are growing, not diminishing. And last I checked, God hasn't done any smiting of them, either.

It's an unnecessary and unconstitutional barrier, but you could still find an ordained minister to sign the paper.

 

[franticscribe]

YAY #LOVEWINS -- Well, unless you either disagree with the ruling or are a Christian.

Then we can call you all kinds of names, mock your faith, shout you down and refer to you as evil....

What if you're one of the millions of Christians who thinks love won? I'm tired of my faith being co-opted by the zealots.

 

[outofplace]

So if it doesn't affect my corner of the world I should be fine with what I see as the decay of morals and society?

Murders in the inner-city don't affect me where I live, either. I'd still like to see them stopped or at least reduced.

And now we have Tony comparing same-sex marriage to murder. Nice.

 

[bigpern23]

And now we have Tony comparing same-sex marriage to murder. Nice.

Pedophilia isn't far behind on the talking points.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

YAY #LOVEWINS -- Well, unless you either disagree with the ruling or are a Christian.

Then we can call you all kinds of names, mock your faith, shout you down and refer to you as evil....

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