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Actually Christianity is just a lifestyle choice
I appreciate everyone's responses. A lot has been said, but not much of it actually relates to the question I asked, but I think that's probably my fault for lack of clarity. I'm going to try to simplify it:
YES or NO: should businesses be able to refuse to provide services to same-sex weddings if such unions violate the owner's or employees' religious principles?
If NO, thank you for your response. Your work here is done.
If YES, that's okay. I'm not passing judgment or calling you a bigot or anything like that. But I do have a follow up question for you:
YES or NO: should businesses be able to reuse to provide services to interracial or interreligious weddings if such unions violate the owner's or employee' religious principles?
If YES, thank you for your response. Your work here is done.
If NO, I want to know what it is that makes it okay in the first instance (same-sex wedding) but not in the second (interracial/interreligious wedding).
Yes, as is atheism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, deism, etc.
It's weird because, as an atheist, I've never been refused services based upon moral indignation.
I wonder why it's so important for Christians to oppose people being Gay and not really other things.
You mean like how they don't scream about divorce even though that is an actual threat to marriage? Simple: they might need one some day. It's much easier to scapegoat Gays than admit their own moral bankruptcy.
You mean like how they don't scream about divorce even though that is an actual threat to marriage? Simple: they might need one some day. It's much easier to scapegoat Gays than admit their own moral bankruptcy.
Funny thing is, Christians divorce more often than non-believers. Who would have thunk it?
Christian Polling Group Finds Atheists Divorce Less Than Christians | The New Civil Rights Movement
You mean like how they don't scream about divorce even though that is an actual threat to marriage? Simple: they might need one some day. It's much easier to scapegoat Gays than admit their own moral bankruptcy.
Actually a lot of Christians are getting again more harsher on divorces since millennials have gotten more fed up with having parents that don't live together anymore.
Also atheists tend to cohabitate more than get married.
That would be related to atheists getting married later in life than Christians. If you cohabit first you will find out if you're actually able to stand to live with someone.
That would be related to atheists getting married later in life than Christians. If you cohabit first you will find out if you're actually able to stand to live with someone.
I meant how atheists get married all the time and this doesn't come up.
I see this question come up a lot here and I don't really understand it. I'm not aware of any Christian sect that believes its wrong for atheists to marry each other. They may believe it's wrong to be an atheist and they may believe it's wrong for a Christian to marry an atheist, but no one says that atheists can't marry each other.
There are many inconsistencies and hypocrisies related to the modern conservative evangelical treatment of homosexuals, but this isn't one of them.
That just leads to the question of why they are OK with atheist weddings in the first place.
They believe it's wrong for people to be gay and not ashamed of it, therefore they claim it would be wrong to decorate gay wedding cakes.
They believe it's wrong for me to be an atheist and not ashamed of it, but they have no problem with my wedding cake.
So, why don't they have a problem with me marrying?
Because under no interpretation of the Bible does the Bible prohibit marriage between two non-believers.
Because under no interpretation of the Bible does the Bible prohibit marriage between two non-believers.
It also doesn't prohibit the marriage of two persons of the same sex. Not to put too fine a point on it.
Variant said:Then why do you care about enforcing biblical standards on gay people who don't believe the part of the Bible you do believe prohibits it?
Let's be clear - I don't care.
But now you've found one of the inconsistencies.
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