Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage

[BitterYoungMatador2]

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.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

It's what he does. (See below).



This is utter bullshirt. You sure do put ideas in other people's heads a lot for someone who doesn't want anything pushed on him.

TINMHITTMAL

 

[JayFarrar]

I was in San Francisco last week for vacation. And I have to admit that seeing dudes make out on the BART escalator made me pause, or I would have paused if I hadn't been on the other escalator.

Of course, I also pause when I see heterosexual couples going at in public.

PDA, never cool, unless it is hot chicks. Then, totally awesome.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

Any thread that has a racist liberal name -checking scripture is an all-timer.

 

[heyabbott]

 

[LongTimeListener]

This is from the Facebook page of Father James Martin, perhaps the best-known Catholic voice in America. I guess he doesn't really know what it's all about since homosexuality doesn't offend his religious beliefs.

It's another good reminder that we're all fortunate for the tens of millions of Americans who are doing Christianity wrong.

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No issue brings out so much hatred from so many Catholics as homosexuality. Even after over 25 years as a Jesuit, the level of hatred around homosexuality is nearly unbelievable to me, especially when I think of all of the wonderful LGBT friends I have.

The Catholic church must do a much better job of teaching what the Catechism says: that we should treat our LGBT brothers and sisters with "respect, sensitivity and compassion."

But God wants more. God wants us to love. And not a twisted, crabbed, narrow tolerance, which often comes in the guise of condemnations, instructions and admonitions that try to masquerade as love, but actual love.

Love means: getting to know LGBT men and women, spending time with them, listening to them, being challenged by them, hoping the best for them, and wanting them to be a part of your lives, every bit as much as straight friends are part of your lives.

Love first. Everything else later. In fact, everything else is meaningless without love.

 

[JC]

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.

Disgraceful, enjoy your family and l will enjoy mine.

 

[Starman]

This is from the Facebook page of Father James Martin, perhaps the best-known Catholic voice in America. I guess he doesn't really know what it's all about since homosexuality doesn't offend his religious beliefs.

It's another good reminder that we're all fortunate for the tens of millions of Americans who are doing Christianity wrong.

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No issue brings out so much hatred from so many Catholics as homosexuality. Even after over 25 years as a Jesuit, the level of hatred around homosexuality is nearly unbelievable to me, especially when I think of all of the wonderful LGBT friends I have.

The Catholic church must do a much better job of teaching what the Catechism says: that we should treat our LGBT brothers and sisters with "respect, sensitivity and compassion."

But God wants more. God wants us to love. And not a twisted, crabbed, narrow tolerance, which often comes in the guise of condemnations, instructions and admonitions that try to masquerade as love, but actual love.

Love means: getting to know LGBT men and women, spending time with them, listening to them, being challenged by them, hoping the best for them, and wanting them to be a part of your lives, every bit as much as straight friends are part of your lives.

Love first. Everything else later. In fact, everything else is meaningless without love.

This will be kind of interesting in upcoming weeks how this plays out with Catholics: the U.S. Catholic bishops called it a 'tragic error.'

Supreme Court Decision on Marriage "A Tragic Error" Says President of Catholic Bishops' Conference

Pope Francis, who has been the darling of liberals/progressives (and the bane of conservatives) in recent weeks over global warming, has been pretty unwavering in this regard.

 

[cjericho]

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.

That was a little too fast. Can you type even slower?

 

[old_tony]

Well-worded reply, but this still doesn't answer the question of how it CHANGES your life. Will you go out to your car tomorrow and see two men butt forking on the hood? I'm guessing no. Will you walk out to get your mail tomorrow and have to see two women 69ing by the mailbox? Again, I'm guessing no. Will the NFL halftime show now show highlights of the games from around the league and then footage of one guy sucking another man's cork... sponsored by Mike's Hard Lemonade!.....NO. The simple truth is it doesn't affect you, or me, or anyone. I don't like that churches that change and shape public policy don't have to pay taxes, but it that has no bearing on me directly. Same applies here.

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.

 

[WriteThinking]

This is from the Facebook page of Father James Martin, perhaps the best-known Catholic voice in America. I guess he doesn't really know what it's all about since homosexuality doesn't offend his religious beliefs.

It's another good reminder that we're all fortunate for the tens of millions of Americans who are doing Christianity wrong.

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No issue brings out so much hatred from so many Catholics as homosexuality. Even after over 25 years as a Jesuit, the level of hatred around homosexuality is nearly unbelievable to me, especially when I think of all of the wonderful LGBT friends I have.

The Catholic church must do a much better job of teaching what the Catechism says: that we should treat our LGBT brothers and sisters with "respect, sensitivity and compassion."

But God wants more. God wants us to love. And not a twisted, crabbed, narrow tolerance, which often comes in the guise of condemnations, instructions and admonitions that try to masquerade as love, but actual love.

Love means: getting to know LGBT men and women, spending time with them, listening to them, being challenged by them, hoping the best for them, and wanting them to be a part of your lives, every bit as much as straight friends are part of your lives.

Love first. Everything else later. In fact, everything else is meaningless without love.

There's nothing in that that suggests actual support of homosexual acts/lifestyles. It espouses love in the general sense that most people with any good morals -- Christian or not -- would agree with and try to live by.

Loving people doesn't mean always loving or supporting everything they do.

That's what people supporting this ruling are missing in attacking Christian beliefs. Attaching someone's dislike of this ruling automatically and only to a Christian point of view is also wrong.

 

[old_tony]

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