Equality!

[maccards44]

if this was the case I would agree with you. Christians deserve the same amount of tolerance that should be extended to very other type of person. It is about time non-believers start exhibiting some tolerance of their own.

I'm a broken record on this but not all Christians are anti-gay marriage. Stop speaking for all of us! Also when a belief system butts up against someone's rights in a court the belief system is going to lose. Nobody is denying Christians the right to marry, if a group was doing that they too wouldn't be tolerated. Calling out a group for denying basic rights to another particular group isn't being "intolerant" it is fighting for what's right.

[maccards44]

I would say that the views expressed by some narrow-minded folks who happen to be christian, are whats under attack. And rightfully so. They are wrong. period. And have no place in 2015.

100% perfect.

[shrewsbury]

I don't have an issue with gay marriage. I do have an issue this was not done on a state level, but, they were being really slow about it.

[37jetson]

I'm a broken record on this but not all Christians are anti-gay marriage. Stop speaking for all of us! Also when a belief system butts up against someone's rights in a court the belief system is going to lose. Nobody is denying Christians the right to marry, if a group was doing that they too wouldn't be tolerated. Calling out a group for denying basic rights to another particular group isn't being "intolerant" it is fighting for what's right.

i am not anti-gay marriage. I am concerned with the treatment that Christians are receiving. This week's opposition to gay marriage and bad behavior by some Christians has chummed the waters and I see the opponents of Christianity waiting to pounce.

I don't agree with your court statement. Gay marriage won on the basis of public opinion, not on the rule of law which would made it a state's issue.

[habsheaven]

Same people that want this to remain a STATE issue are the ones that said their opposition to interracial marriage was that (you guessed it) it should be a state issue.

[beachbum]

2nd, this is same trope trotted out by conservative christians. "Hate the sinner not the sin," all that garbage. Following this logic, I guess ANYBODY who has has premarital sex can forget about getting married right? I mean it's the same thing, just as the author points out. No marriage licenses for hetero couples who have sex before marriage. What about anal before marriage? oral? 3rd base? The questions down at the marriage license department at city hall are about to get INTERESTING if this closed minded idiot gets his way.

This is bigotry. I don't cower calling a spade a spade. Bigotry is also not a 4 letter word. You did some good ol fashioned name-calling too in case your forgot...get down off your horse big man.

bigotry

[big-uh-tree]


1. stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.

[beachbum]

Thanks for being the first to reduce this name-calling. I never said you were a bigot. But if your belief system means denying rights to other U.S. citizens, rights that you enjoy, yeah I have a problem with that. It's so typical, you and your ilk claim you are constantly under attack all while name-calling and denying rights to other people (see also attacking) Again,I am christian, I was raised to believe that we are all equal and we are created by god and they to getting into heaven is to treat everyone well. Not to label people or treat them differently. Most of this country is christian and will not tolerate discrimination against christian. Even as mush as you think think the sky is falling right now, churches don't have to marry gay people or even accept them as members. The ruling doesn't affect christians other than allowing gays marriage licenses. If you don't believe in gay marriage, don't go to one. I won't even get into why there needs to be laws about marriage, it's a given.

The sky is not falling on me but I also think the country is sinking into a value-less chasm that will push God farther and farther away from favoring the U.S. (like any God-fearing country should, not just the U.S.) I think the government has painted itself into this corner with no other alternative but to do what they just did.

The one thing I can't understand and I've asked it before with no answer is why can't someone not support or believe in gay marriage and still not condemn the gay person??? This is what I do because it is Christ like. We can honor God and Christ by doing this, why do you hate Christians that believe this?? I may not fight for gay marriage but I would fight any bully picking on a gay person or treating them with any type of persecution. It's just that simple but no, you must hate me because I don't support the marriage issue.

[bryanATX]

The sky is not falling on me but I also think the country is sinking into a value-less chasm that will push God farther and farther away from favoring the U.S. (like any God-fearing country should, not just the U.S.) I think the government has painted itself into this corner with no other alternative but to do what they just did.

The one thing I can't understand and I've asked it before with no answer is why can't someone not support or believe in gay marriage and still not condemn the gay person??? This is what I do because it is Christ like. We can honor God and Christ by doing this, why do you hate Christians that believe this?? I may not fight for gay marriage but I would fight any bully picking on a gay person or treating them with any type of persecution. It's just that simple but no, you must hate me because I don't support the marriage issue.

allow me....because you cant deny rights that you think you are entitled to, to other people equal to you without being labled that way. It is that simple, youre right. And the real way to be "christ-like", would be to love people, and not think you are above them. I dont hate you, I just hate who and what you are. Sounds different that way doesn't it? Its not....that is literally what you are saying. Is that christ-like? Or even a way for a decent human being to think? Nice...

[beachbum]

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allow me....because you cant deny rights that you think you are entitled to, to other people equal to you without being labled that way. It is that simple, youre right. And the real way to be "christ-like", would be to love people, and not think you are above them. I dont hate you, I just hate who and what you are. Sounds different that way doesn't it? Its not....that is literally what you are saying. Is that christ-like? Or even a way for a decent human being to think? Nice...

Why is it hate at all to disagree about something, you pervert everything I said.

[37jetson]

Same people that want this to remain a STATE issue are the ones that said their opposition to interracial marriage was that (you guessed it) it should be a state issue.

You are truly a gutless worm with those lame BS associations. It would have been nice if you would have had the decency to address me on the issues versus taking the cheapest of shots imaginable. You need to learn how to read and then keep your nose out of anything American since we are just a bunch if idiots.

To repeat myself that was gutless.