This is an interesting topic that brings up a few points here. Typically speaking, the most vocal of any movement are the people who don't necessarily represent the movement as whole, but the most extreme views of it. Everyone takes the lack of a louder voice as silent consent whether that's fair or not.
In the gay community, the over sexualized nature of the group appears to be a normal thing. Whether or not that's true, I can't really say. My ex fiance had a lot of gay friends and they seemed like mostly normal people. I probably made more crass jokes than they ever did. However, there is definitely a concern to be had here as well. We can't discount the testimony these people give.
It makes me wonder, is the underlying issue just bad people in general? You can find a lot of kids not being raised correctly by straight people in broken homes. These kids that become adults are degenerates as well, but in a different way. I know some of you would rather have a litmus test for a lot of things, but who gets to decide what is the right way to test things, and whose to say that the government won't every do any over reaching?
This also raises the issue of government and religion. Marriage is most definitely a religious ceremony. The fact that we have laws based around this should bother you. I'm all for letting churches decide who they will and will not marry and abolishing any laws we have around the "institution of marriage". At the same time, I'm all for the government calling these things "civil unions" which confer the same rights. We get two things out of this - assholes not stepping on religious freedoms, and less government intervention in our lives.
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kneo24 ago
This is an interesting topic that brings up a few points here. Typically speaking, the most vocal of any movement are the people who don't necessarily represent the movement as whole, but the most extreme views of it. Everyone takes the lack of a louder voice as silent consent whether that's fair or not.
In the gay community, the over sexualized nature of the group appears to be a normal thing. Whether or not that's true, I can't really say. My ex fiance had a lot of gay friends and they seemed like mostly normal people. I probably made more crass jokes than they ever did. However, there is definitely a concern to be had here as well. We can't discount the testimony these people give.
It makes me wonder, is the underlying issue just bad people in general? You can find a lot of kids not being raised correctly by straight people in broken homes. These kids that become adults are degenerates as well, but in a different way. I know some of you would rather have a litmus test for a lot of things, but who gets to decide what is the right way to test things, and whose to say that the government won't every do any over reaching?
This also raises the issue of government and religion. Marriage is most definitely a religious ceremony. The fact that we have laws based around this should bother you. I'm all for letting churches decide who they will and will not marry and abolishing any laws we have around the "institution of marriage". At the same time, I'm all for the government calling these things "civil unions" which confer the same rights. We get two things out of this - assholes not stepping on religious freedoms, and less government intervention in our lives.