What I don't understand is people who are gay & lesbian, and want equal marriage rights and to be treated with respect for their sexuality, treat "homophobes" in a disrespectful way just because they don't support gay marriage rights, even if those "homophobes" respect everyone, including gays and lesbians. It seems like a double standard to me. Gays and lesbians want respect, but some of them disrespect people who still respect people but don't have the same political views.
I brought this up to a girl who sits next to me in chemistry and is a lesbian. She disagreed with me and basically said they don't deserve respect because they don't want equality.
Then a close friend of mine who is gay, could care less of someone's political views. He's friends with multiple people who don't support gay marriage rights. They respect him and he respects them.
Question is, why would you not support gay marriage? What is wrong with two people loving each other wanting to get married? Because of what is in an old book? Read that old book, cover to cover and come back and tell me you support everything else in that old book. Then we talk.
I don't have a problem with gay marriage.
Although most people against it are also hypocrites because they're going by the Bible. I look at it in a political sense. I don't think marriage should be any of the government's business.
Agreed on the bible hypocrites. Marriage in most countries are pretty much laws on how the couple own property, custody of kids, who gets what if someone dies and other things? How could the government stay out of that?
Well it's the fact you have to get a license to marry. Almost like you have to be qualified. I understand when it comes to property and custody, but who can marry who? They can at least stay out of that.
I guess, since there are laws stating what a "legally binding marriage" is, there need to be some kind of confirmation that people entering the marriage can do so according to the law. E.g. cannot already be married etc. But yeah, getting a marriage license and a driving license, maybe "getting a kid" license while we are at it.
It drives me crazy that the people who are spreading the "celebrate tolerance" message are some the most intolerant, hateful people... toward their "opponents". True tolerance tolerates intolerance.
Look up the paradox of tolerance. If you are tolerant without limit, intolerant people will take advantage of it. To be a truly tolerant society, it must be intolerant of intolerance.
I brought this up to a girl who sits next to me in chemistry and is a lesbian. She disagreed with me and basically said they don't deserve respect because they don't want equality.
Then a close friend of mine who is gay, could care less of someone's political views. He's friends with multiple people who don't support gay marriage rights. They respect him and he respects them.
Although most people against it are also hypocrites because they're going by the Bible. I look at it in a political sense. I don't think marriage should be any of the government's business.