I do and always have considered myself a republican.
Interestingly enough, with two of the biggest controversial issues deciphering
whether a person swings right or left, my opinions point me left. I one hundred
percent condone the option of abortion as a last resort, not as a birth
control, and I support the legalization of gay marriage. And reading an article
like this only solidifies my views. People like Eddie Thompson make it really
hard for me to understand things from the other perspective. Religion should
play no part in the legalization of homosexual marriage because it should play
no part in the government. Separation of church and state has been enforced for
too long to allow Christian extremists to preach and sway the vote. Freedom of
religion allows Americans to participate in any religion they choose as long as
their practices do not harm others. Just because a group of people decide to
believe in those values does not mean that everyone else must abide by them.
Christians opposing the idea of same-sex marriage’s big argument is that the
bible says marriage is between a man and a woman. If they were reasonable, they
would understand that not everyone leads their life according to those writings
and they cannot control what others chose to do or whom to love. Everyone
should be held accountable for their own actions and that is it. America is not
a dictatorship where one person or group of people has the right to command everyone
to follow their customs. This solution seems so simple to me and hopefully soon
people will acknowledge that.
This reading angered me just as much as it angered you. Religion should play no part in the government ever because every religion is so different. Who can say which religion is right? Nobody. Religion has nothing to do with the subject of gay marriage. Mr. Thompson just needed something to make his argument sound better. I have never in my life been against gay people. I find that they, as long as everyone, should be able to marry and be happy with the person they love, and without ridicule. Just because the bible says that gay marriage is wrong, doesn’t mean we have to follow that.
ReplyDeleteI think that the author of this article has a pretty outdated idea of what marriage is today. As Kathleen discussed, religion should have nothing to do with the matter. He thinks that two same sex people cannot get married because it goes against the bible, but almost half of couples married today end in divorce. That also goes against the bible. To not allow same sex couple to get married because of your personal beliefs is very unfair and selfish. If two people are planning on having a heterosexual marriage in the future, their big day will not be ruined by knowing two people of the same sex are allowed the same opportunities.
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