[Heartlander]

Homosexuality is a ‘behavior’ – and service is refused based on behavior all the time. Lawyers choose the clients they want to represent based on behavior – restaurants may choose not to allow smoking or alcohol (legal behaviors). Businesses impose dress codes on patrons and refuse to allow patrons who wear T-shirts containing messages that they see as repugnant. This is not just an issue for religious beliefs and we should not allow others to frame the argument as such. There are many secular arguments against gay marriage but it seems there is an agenda to frame this as merely archaic Christian intolerance. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. did not ask people to turn away from the Bible because of racial intolerance – he told them to turn ‘to’ the Bible in order to stop racial intolerance – and it worked.

America is now being asked to accept gay marriage as normal and healthy. No one - not Moses, Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, Aquinas, Gandhi, not the Bible, Torah, Koran or any other sacred text, nor even a single anti-religious secular thinker of the Enlightenment -- ever advocated redefining marriage to include members of the same sex. Beyond this, to now say homosexual marriage is right is to say all secular and religious icons in our past were wrong. We are saying in a time of Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, and hotdog-stuffed-crust-pizza that we have reached an enlightenment no other culture before us ever attained - and that we can now proclaim that all the great thinkers throughout history were intolerant bigots due to the decision of 5 activist judges.

[Bob434]

[[Homosexuality is a ‘behavior’ – and service is refused based on behavior all the time.]]

Not anymore it isn’t- that is why the supreme court ruling was so destructive- it turned a ‘behavior’ into a genetic trait-

You argument of course is spot on correct- BUT the supreme court destroyed common sense and truth by it’s latest ruling

[[Beyond this, to now say homosexual marriage is right is to say all secular and religious icons in our past were wrong.]]

Exactly- the supreme court’s ruling basically outlawed Religious beliefs about homosexuality- If you run a business you are now no longer allowed to obey your God- it has become a crime to obey God now if a person denies someone who practices a sinful immoral lifestyle service-