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Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
I mean where does it end??
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Third, it is very ignorant to compare any aspect of the civil rights movement to the homosexual movement. The jury is not out on whether people are born black..That's pretty much a fact. I cannot turn my life over to Christ and change my race. I cannot decide I'm going through a phase..and stop being black.
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The slippery slope argument (if we allow this, then what) has been used throughout history and has been repeatedly rejected. I believe our Courts and legislature are prudent and intelligent enough to discern when A, B, C, D and E are okay, but F is not.
Additionally, many argue that there is no such thing as race, so in some regards its not "pretty much a fact." Race, in my opinion, was created as a social construct (just like class) to separate. Humans are 99.9% the same, we have all this racism drama over a phenotypic difference that accounts for .1% (that is .001 in decimal form instead of per cent) of our differences. If race were a real God-made difference then interracial child-bearing would be impossible.
Your skin color won't change- and even that is not true, consider Michael Jackson's disease- but your race is made up. So actually, you could stop being black- because you only "are" because you have accepted that you are.
Race is a social construct.
Now, don't get me wrong, I consider myself black, too. But that is because that is what I feel comfortable saying and that is the culture I have been raised to understand. But as a bio-engineering major in undergrad I know, genetically, race does not exist- it is a social construct DESIGNED TO DIVIDE.
(If you don't believe or understand please read some articles or books on Critical Race Theory.)
As a Christian, I consider homosexual behavior sinful. I also believe
marraige is a religious institution. However, I beleive that two men of legal age or two women of legal age should be allowed to consent to a Civil Union which under the eyes of the
law , not the church, will afford them the rights and privileges of marriage. Just as two athiests can get "married" in a courthouse, I beleive that two homosexuals should be able to enter into such a union as well. The difference here to me is that even though athiests fundamentally don't believe in God the consumamtion of their marriage will not be sinful, but I cannot give the word "marriage" to a union whose fundamental act of consummation will be sinful.
I DO think however that has nothing to do with the STATE. Therefore, a Civil Union should exists and those who enter into it should be able to receive insurance payments, pension payments and everything else UNDER LAW married couples receive. I also believe if their right to be treated the same way similarly situated people are (married heterosexual couples) then yes, they should and CAN sue.
I sincerely beleive it is inappropriate in America to legislate morality.