^ FUCK THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. Its hateful and homophobic. This country was founded on secularism and has several clauses in the constitution specifically banning the establishment of a state religion. I am not christian, and am PROUD to live in a country where I don't have to. We are intentionally NOT a theocratic state. There are plenty of countries that are, but we intentionally are not. It is part of the basis for this country. The fucked up thing is that the evangelical right is attempting to hijack our democracy and turn it into a theocracy because they believe their hateful mythology is more important than treating all people with dignity. They are infringing on liberty and freedom, because their religion is more important to them than the ideals this country was founded upon.
There is nothing difficult about this. Live and let live, let the gays be who they are, it doesn't hurt you. Your actions, on the other hand, DO hurt them.
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And a further step in moral reasoning is needed to elevate the right to do what one wishes in private into a right to enter a gay marriage. Gay marriage as an equality right thus represents a strange new hybrid — it’s the right to act in a certain way, to have the state and other institutions bless one’s actions, and to punish people (the way we punish bigots) for expressing disagreement with those actions. It is a totally novel equality right, an equality right on steroids.
Hybrid of what? The state has always needed to "bless one's actions" and make others do the same when it came to rights. Whether it was to bless the right of black people to live where they wanted to, or to bless the right of women to be treated equally in the work place. This is no different than any other right, you are complicating it because you are homophobic and want to make it seem like your denial of the rights of others is acceptable, and you want to act like this is different than other struggles for rights. Or maybe not you, maybe its other people. There is no right that is denied to others by granting gay marriage.
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I sometimes wonder why Girl is put on such a pedestal.
Wow. Really? If you don't understand that, how the fuck did you gather the brainpower to use the internet? I would figure getting on the internet would be a more difficult concept to grasp
Jesus is going to turn them into hamburger. Read about it in Revelation. He doesn't like those satanic shitheads and He is going to kill them all. Be ready, because this attempt to advance Islam is coming soon. According to the Bible it will happen within one generation of the rebirth of Israel. Israel was reborn in 1948, so the time is running out.
IF you are like most non believers and absolutely refuse to accept God on his terms, you will be accepting Satan and his False Prophet on their ugly terms. If they think that you are a Christian you will die a most hideous death on their blood sacrifice altars to Allah (Baal in the Old Testament) just like we have seen in the thousands of Al Jazeera beheading videos.
It is no accident that the ritual is always performed in the same manner with the same ritual chants and hideously slow beheading of the screaming, gurgling victim.
DON'T LET ME GET INTO GAY MARRIAGE
Reagan and Bush cut 90 percent of the funding for research into renewable energy possibilities. $140 billion was cut into the social programs through 1984 and this funding was otherwise spent on increasing the military spending by $181 billion. Reagan's budget cuts were very intense, social security disability benefits were ended for 350,000 people. Unemployment grew during the Reagan years, and new requirments eliminated free school lunches for more than one million poor children, who depended on the meal. Welfare came under attack with Reagan as president, and Reagan's policies all benefited the rich. The Reagan administration lowered tax rate on for the very rich greatly. The policies of Reagan's administration lacked consensus because they did not reflect the vote of many liberals.
Bush attempted to represent liberal interested when he presented himself as an environmental president. He represented liberals when he signed the Clean Air Act of 1990 but then also signed the new rule of the Environmental Protection Agency that allowed manufacturers to increase by 245 tons a year hazardous pollutants in the atmosphere which irradiated much of the Clean Air Act. Under both Reagan and Bush business and conservative interests acted to override the safety and concern of the general public. Bush's policies are very similar to that of Reagan. He adds to tax breaks for rich and doesn't help the poor.