It's one thing to disagree with homosexuality, which is completely okay because it's their own opinion, but refusing service is just stupid. They're humans too, regardless Of whether you agree with their lifestyle or notm
On the flip side would you want to make a cake for hitler? Or a member of the kkk? Or that Boston marathon bomber? To some super religious people, homosexuals are just as bad. I'm not saying that is a correct opinion or that anything is wrong with Homosexuality. I'm just saying people should be able to choose to whether or not they serve some people, and if the market doesn't agree with that and doesn't support that business the company will be out of business soon enough.
If you're super religious you should understand the basis of Christianity and follow them, not be an asshole to people. Take the higher levels of clergy in the Catholic Church. I'm 98.6% sure they're the definition of "super religious" but I'm also 98.6% sure they're nice to people.
Tyler a company that is open to the public can refuse service all they want. The equal protection clause (mentioned by the guest above) only applies to government buildings and businesses. So like your normal subway restaurant can refuse service, but a government parking garage can't.
Good Christians shouldn't be doing that. Jesus set up that example for us to follow, and basically it's against our religion to NOT bake a cake for a gay person
Still wrong. It's not love. It's weakness of the human flesh. God made man a companion because he said it was not good for man to be alone. He then made a woman to be his companion. If he thought it was best to have given Adam a man then he would have done so. But he didn't. For those that are "Gay Christians" it doesn't even make sense to call yourself so, because you are refuting what God says is wrong and are contradicting your beliefs. God says it is an abomination for man to lay with man. Or woman to lay with woman. So when you say fine, that's just the way I am but I won't act on it, well isn't that letting the weakness of the flesh win over your desire to serve God and live in his image as he wants us to? It's possible to be an ex homosexual. By recognizing your sin and repenting from it. Denying yourself and living for Christ. I'm not hating anyone, I think there are consequences for this and I care enough to give caution. If you want to listen then please do.I won't force you.
I assume you're referring to christian God. Did you ever think that there isn't really a god? If you imagine how unbelievable greek gods or roman gods or Egyptian gods are, it's not that far fetched that Christianity is completely wrong. I'm not saying it is is isn't a god, but assuming there is no God, what is your argument against gay marriage?
The non-Abrahamic gods are wrong because they're used to explain natural occurrences. Thor and his thunder, Zeus and his lightning, Vulcan and his volcanoes, ect.
But what makes you so sure yours are right? To someone who worships the sun, someone who allegedly turns water into wine and rose from the dead sounds foolish. At least we can prove the sun and lightening exist.
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Isn't that what God does? An explanation for the unknown? Miracles? Spontaneous healing? Horrible people suddenly "seeing the light" and near instantly turning themselves around?
Ty, that's funny. You basically described what Egyptians said about Ra the God of the sun, he was responsible for all the unknown and unexplainable. Just because you can't explain it doesn't make it true. I can't explain splitting atoms, but it happens (see the nuclear bomb). Have you ever witnessed a miracle? Or did you just hear about them in the fairy tales told on Sunday and in your catholic school's religion class?
Things happen everyday, miracles don't exist. Coincidences happen, miracles are a story told to children to keep them obedient. Like Santa Claus, which is a really good analogy. How is God different from Santa? Both perform miracles, we ask both for things, they don't always give us what we want, and we're both imaginary things
Well, to explain the wonders of what we don't yet know we attribute them to God as miracles. Same as the heathen gods of old. Except the oldies are now invalid because we've shown that what they're attributed to is natural and scienceable. Someone does that to God (which would be very hard to do with current tech) and the entire Church and Christian community would be shaken IMO.
Okay guest, people like you piss me off. Let us believe what we want. We have faith in what we believe and you're not going to shake that with a few comments on the internet. We're not hurting you with our beliefs and we have no obligation to answer our reasoning to you. So we believe in something that aounds crazy to you. Cool. Congrats. Get over it. Move on and stop trying to ruin peoples' faith in something just because it doesn't make sense to you.
I don't know where the guest took this, but my question was other than religious grounds, why are people against gay marriage? It kind of got taken a different direction though
Yeah i noticed. Im not against gay marriage or anti-gay, but i personally dont agree with their lifestyle. But, honestly, who am i to tell someone they can't marry and live their own life? I just personally don't think it's natural and it's technically a sin if we're going off the bible. Again, personal opinion here and I'm not judging anybody nor do I judge anyonr for personal preferences.
Yes this is the truth. Private businesses can refuse service.
To my knowledge, Christians don't put too much weight in that. Especially not Leviticus.
Isn't that what God does? An explanation for the unknown? Miracles? Spontaneous healing? Horrible people suddenly "seeing the light" and near instantly turning themselves around?