Forcing your beliefs on others

KarateCowboy said:

People with same sex attractions do have a right to marry, just as people who are attracted to little boys, or people who are attracted to their siblings, or normal people. So don't start saying they don't have the right to marry that is an outright lie. They just have attractions that stand outside of what everyone is allowed to do. So the question is not a matter of equal rights. They have the same rights as I. Here is an elementary concept that some just don't get: SAME mean EQUAL. Say it again: SAME is EQUAL. Once people can understand that we have a start. So the real question is: should EVERYONE be able to marry ANYONE they are attracted to. The answer, I believe, is no.

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And the exact same argument could be made decades ago about refusing to allow black people to marry white people. You're in good company.

KarateCowboy said:

As for being tolerant: you're not fooling me. And if you were tolerant of my beliefs you would not be on a Christian site telling us how our beliefs are all wrong, because you'd just live and let live and leave us be. Instead you are actively fighting our beliefs, trying to change them or invalidate them. That is anything but tolerant.

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You don't know what 'tolerant' means. There is nothing INtolerant about disagreeing with someone, or about arguing with them. It is not INtolerant to hold that your beliefs are wrong. What is INtolerant is trying to prevent you from having those beliefs or from acting on them.

Me arguing that your beliefs are wrong is NOT intolerant; you preventing homosexuals from marrying because of y our beliefs IS intolerant.