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Last I checked there were a few places that homosexuals can legally get married. All of Canada for one.
Also Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and South Africa. Every country within the EEC have either, legalised same sex marriage or same sex Civil Partnerships.
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I believe most have heard the statement before "Hate the sin,love the sinner", ........
So God sends the sinner to hell not the sin. Brilliant!!
It's threads like this one that re-kindle my flagging enthusiasm to fight Christianity forever! Because if "they" were in charge, what a "hell" of a place this world would be to live in.
So a bizarre stereotype of Christians is a good reason to fight Christianity? How many Christians on this thread have advocated any punishments for homosexuality?
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Special! Loving! Tolerant! Such are the wages of a depraved and totalitarian fundamentalist regime, banging their "inerrant" bible against the heads of "the unsaved"....
Where has this happened in the last century?
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I'm not hallucinating; for an historical replay of what I suggest, check out The Age of Darkness, or The Spanish Inquisition, or The Salem Witch Hunts.
Yes, we're all hiding under your bed plotting against you.
Most anything that's 2000 years old can look bad through selective editing like this. However the reality is secular-nationalist and Marxist regimes did things that make the Spanish Inquisition pale into insignificance. In the meantime the last twenty-five decades have seen Christians try to end slavery, bring Civil Rights for African Americans, try to stop various wars, support vaccination programs, etc. The only Christian theocratic states on Earth are small enclaves that are mostly inhabited by people in religious orders. (Mt. Athos, the Vatican, Erchmazdin or however you call that Armenian place)
Even in the eras you mean Christians were building Hospitals, Universities, writing about botany, pharmacology, devising more accurate calendars, etc. Colonial Massachusetts may have given us the Salem witch-trials, but it also gave us Harvard. Although never denominational Harvard is named for clergyman John Harvard. Sixteenth century Spain produced the intellectually interesting "School of Salamanca." The period also produced El Greco and Lope de Vega.
So a bizarre stereotype of Christians is a good reason to fight Christianity? How many Christians on this thread have advocated any punishments for homosexuality?
Perhaps not so much on this thread (yet), but do you not think that lobbying to deny gays equal rights is not a punishment?....From what I have seen since I've been on these forums the majority of Christians here are against equal rights for homosexuals....How about you? Where do you stand on this issue?
So not changing ancient institutions for gays is punishment of them? Granting them more rights than they ever had in US history, but not as much as they'd like to have, is a punishment? And so by this thinking I'm being punished when say a business doesn't make itself handicap accessible? Interesting.
So not changing ancient institutions for gays is punishment of them? Granting them more rights than they ever had in US history, but not as much as they'd like to have, is a punishment? And so by this thinking I'm being punished when say a business doesn't make itself handicap accessible? Interesting.
I believe your thinking may be handicapped by your beliefs...Yes, denying equal rights to any group is a form of mass punishment. Denying gays the right to marry has many negative implications under your current family, tax and inheritance laws. They are denied many other legal rights and benefits that heterosexual couples have. At least now I know where you stand.
So not changing ancient institutions for gays is punishment of them? Granting them more rights than they ever had in US history, but not as much as they'd like to have, is a punishment? And so by this thinking I'm being punished when say a business doesn't make itself handicap accessible? Interesting.
Would allowing only Protestants to marry be punishment to Catholics?
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Much more appropriate and funny .
