Maybe I’m a little confused here, help me out.
When you go in to get a marriage license, are you asked if you are gay or straight? I don’t recall, nor can I find that question being asked on any marriage license. I’m sure you would agree that currently, this question is not asked, correct?
There are restrictions on marriage that apply to all.
You can’t marry someone under a certain age.
You can’t marry someone who is already married.
You can’t marry someone who is a close relation (brother, sister, mother, father, cousin, etc).
You can’t marry someone of the same gender.
These rules apply equally to all and are completely blind to one’s sexual orientation. These rules don’t ask you what will ‘make you happy’, or ‘who do you love’; they are simply definitions of this specific contract.
How are these rules discriminatory against homosexuals when they are completely blind to one’s sexual orientation? They don’t say ‘you are gay so you can’t get married’. A gay person can get married just like a straight person- they just have the same rules as everyone else. No matter what a straight person, for example, may feel about another married person, he or she can’t marry that person. A straight person can’t marry someone of the same gender, for example, if they wanted some sort of benefit.
The rules are blind towards sexual orientation.
I don’t play semantics. I simply believe we are forcing our beliefs on a group of people and condemning them through punishment. God burned Sodom.....not man. Let God judge them and let us not oppress them. Let us make them as free to choose God and turn from that lifestyle as we are from our own sin. Let us not turn them off to the freedom God grants us by oppressing them? We become just as guilty.
Frankly, I am shocked and embarrassed by the stone throwing christians when it comes to this issue. I see why Coulter and Rush wont pick those stones up.