Marriage isn't a right. Its as simple as that.
Homosexuals have the right to get married in California. It's as simple as that.
It should be noted that changing a thread title doesn't make it true.
If you'd like to say why you think it isn't true, please do.
It is not a right. It is a privilege. Why can't you understand that?
Honestly, what's the difference?
As a black man, I would never call a white person black. They wouldn't know what its like to be discriminated against.
White people know what it's like to be discriminated against, for sure. They just don't face discrimination on nearly the same scale.
Either way, when you're discussing public policy it's generally better to leave it to the voters and their elected legislators, not judges.
Bullshit. If that where the case, we wouldn't have judges.
Homosexuality is...not an inherent genetic trait, but a behavioral choice.
Prove it.
And to many, an immoral and decadent one. And to non-religious people, homosexuality is just a weird and gross choice.
Thanks for telling me what I believe.
As I quoted in a previous topic years ago, black civil rights leaders were actually offended that gays tried to wedge through their agenda comparing gay rights to the black civil rights movement.
That has absolutely no bearing on anything.
And while you try to deny the issue, the chasm between gay rights and black civil rights was made clear in California's Proposition 8 vote in November 2008.
Where blacks who came to the polls to vote for Obama voted overwhelmingly against Proposition 8.
Same as above.
How the majority of blacks feel about the issue does not in any way define its relation to the civil rights movement. If 100% of black people felt that treating white people as inferior wasn't descrimination, it wouldn't change the fact that it is just that.
You've got it backwards.
The truth is, pushing gay marriage is just gay and liberal people forcing their views on conservative and Christian people, spreading misery by forcing their lifestyle, which in every credible study is maybe 2% of the public, and forcing their gay/liberal secularist views onto the overwhelming majority who oppose gay marriage.
Forcing those views on a society created on Christian principles, no less. Ironically, suppressing thre free practice of Christianity in a Christian culture.
I don't even know where to begin on this one, so I'll just say that you can't have it one way without the other. Either no one is forcing their beliefs, or everyone involved is.
Again: gay marriage is an attempt to give gays state-recognized minority protection. And would therefore make any Judao-Christian Bible verses condemning homosexuality a "hate-crime" punishable by large fines or even jail-time. So you want to give gays rights by taking rights away from Christians and other conservatives.
Wait, what? Did I miss something? Did you just argue that gay marriage takes away the right to commit hate crimes?
