I am a proponent of same-sex marriage, but I have no issue with any church refusing to perform a ceremony.
I agree completely.
I am a proponent of same-sex marriage, but I have no issue with any church refusing to perform a ceremony.
Yeah, LDS adoption agencies can't discriminate against homosexual couples any longer once homosexuals get their legislation through, and BYU can't keep them out of their housing. Everyone wins!
Let's celebrate diversity, guys!
No way are either of these things gonna happen.My predictions:
The LDS will let women have the priesthood in the next 20 years.
In the next 40 years, married homosexuals will be allowed to do temple ordinances.
Since the Church has no problem throwing past leaders/doctorine under the bus, why wouldn't they make these changes?
Yeah, LDS adoption agencies can't discriminate against homosexual couples any longer once homosexuals get their legislation through, and BYU can't keep them out of their housing. Everyone wins!
Let's celebrate diversity, guys!
Yeah, you churches don't need to be in the hospital, education, adoption, publishing, online dating, and wedding services businesses. Homosexuals will leave you alone when you keep your churchy behavior in your churches.
I don't see how it's discrimination advocating what you teach and believe. If anything, it would be highly hypocritical if they did.
I don't see how it's discrimination advocating what you teach and believe. If anything, it would be highly hypocritical if they did.
Why are you responding as if she was being serious, when she was engaging in sarcastic hyperbole?
Because some people feel that way, guy.
So? Some people feel that cows deserve the exact same rights as people. Why does it matter if "some people feel that way"?
It doesn't. I was just inclined to add my two-cents.
Maybe not with marriage, but with other things.
You're being very gracious in thinking that your opinion is worth two-cents. Very gracious.
To me, the wealth inequality, unrelenting partisanship, unsustainable defense spending, and our idolatry of "job creators" is a far greater threat than a small minority (gays) being able to be married.the Koch Bros are a bigger threat to America than all the gays combined.
I was making a point that government has, in fact, had a hand in saying what religions can or can't do. Do you disagree?So you admit that the government has nKoiever forced the church to do anything against its marriage standards? So what exactly are you arguing about? Why the cause for concern?
I for one am one fed up Mormon who's tired of this Chicken Little attitude I've seen from fellow Mormons in the past few years. Whether we are talking about taxes, debt, health care, marriage, guns, etc it's as if the world is coming to an end!
To me, the wealth inequality, unrelenting partisanship, unsustainable defense spending, and our idolatry of "job creators" is a far greater threat than a small minority (gays) being able to be married.the Koch Bros are a bigger threat to America than all the gays combined.
I was making a point that government has, in fact, had a hand in saying what religions can or can't do. Do you disagree?
I was making a point that government has, in fact, had a hand in saying what religions can or can't do. Do you disagree?