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Why does gay marriage trigger so many on the right? I know it goes against your religious beliefs but outside of that what is the big deal?
The answer is control.
Well what the hell do you think the atheist Marxists wants if it isn't control and coercion. In this case of my church, the Catholic Church, membership if voluntary.
Let's say the government started "pushing" the "belief" that Picasso was a great painter.
Now, some people are going to look at Picasso's paintings, and think it's a bunch of bizarre-looking nonsense.
The people who think that can simply ignore what the government was "pushing" and hold their own opinion.
People will do that anyway, no matter what the government "pushes." So ultimately the government "pushing" something makes little difference anyway.
If my taxes are going to killing little babies about to be born, then, yes, it damn well DOES affect me and everyone else in many ways. Immorality harms ALL of us.
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Governments don't decree what a religion is - Christianity exists long before any official stamp of approval.
Atheism doesn't have any values -it's just a position on the existence of gods
WHAT makes you believe belief in God is a requirement to having 'values'?
If my taxes are going to killing little babies about to be born, then, yes, it damn well DOES affect me and everyone else in many ways. Immorality harms ALL of us.
That was utterly unresponsive to the post of mine you were quoting.
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If my taxes are going to killing little babies about to be born, then, yes, it damn well DOES affect me and everyone else in many ways. Immorality harms ALL of us.
What about peoples' taxes paying for services like police, fire, sewage, et al used by tax-free churches? When churches pay taxes they might have claim to a political voice, until they do, they don't.
Can you name one law that forces atheism on you? Don't mention abortion, because the majority of people in this country are pro-choice, and no one is forcing you to have an abortion. Don't bring up school prayer, because no one has ever been prevented from praying in a school.
There have been a few cases of people being forced to violate their religious beliefs, and for the most part the Supreme Court has sided with the religious.
I guess we have all these new people tuning in who haven't read all the past posts. I've answered this five times already. Immoral acts affect ALL of us. For example,the immoral gay sex acts constitute more than half the HIV cases in the United States. This places a big burden on the resources of the medical field as well as taxpayer money. Immoral hetero sex acts, like sex outside marriage harm all of society. The make for unstable relationships, lead to poor single motherhood, fatherless children who go on to commit crimes, broken relationships, depression on and on.
You leftwingers need to look beyond yourselves.
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