Okay, then I’ll put it a different way: The restrictions in the case of same-sex marriage bans are unreasonable, and are based purely on religious tenets.
There is no same-sex marriage ban. Same sex ‘marriage’ has simply never existed at all. And are you telling me that every single society in the history of mankind was purely religious?
I don’t have time, I’ll just trust Justice Kennedy… Supreme Court Justice seems like a pretty reputable title. But, if you find conclusive evidence that the Justice is lying, please share!
Considering what supreme court justices find in the ‘penumbra’ of the Constitution, considering decisions like Dred Scott…no, I wouldn’t take his word. As I said, I’ve been to a site that a supporter of redefining marriage claimed listed those 1100 rights, and there was no such list.
It doesn’t matter that they object to the acts… The acts come secondary to the trait. Restricting the act is unconstitutional in the US (Lawrence v Texas). Teaching children the reality that same-sex couples exist seems like common sense to me, just like teaching them that different religions exist. It fosters an ability for them to interact with fellow members of society when they get into the workforce. It is not the same as teaching them that they must condone it.
Yes, we can and do restrict actions in this country. We do it all the time.
If you would like to teach your children that same-sex couples exist, please do. At question here in this thread, in the Russian law, is that YOU do not have the right to teach MY children things of a sexual or moral nature.
They can only interact with others in the workforce if they’re taught at age, what–3, 4, 5?–about homosexuality? I thought gays didn’t define themselves by their sex lives? So in theory if my kid becomes a lawyer, he ought to be talking with his colleagues about law, not their sex lives, right?
Or perhaps consider that kind and good people will be kind and good to others whether they’ve been taught about homosexuality or not.
You may not think you’re forcing people to ‘condone’ it, but by talking about it constantly and foisting it on children, you and others who do so are trying to normalize it.
Did you ever think that this could be a symptom of the religious/societal intollerance that has been the norm for decades?
Obviously that’s one explanation. And obviously it’s at least as possible that, given the frequent occurrence of abuse in the background of many with SSA, that maybe there is a correlation between depression and SSA, and/or other factors which lead to both the depression and the SSA–and which no amount of society re-programming is going to solve.
There is no more damage to the anal sphincter than there is to the vaginal wall, when a reasonable amount of precaution is taken. The muscles maintain tone, and are often strengthened.
Cough, yeah. Okay. I know plenty of people who work in the medical field who report otherwise based on firsthand experience.
Well, we will just have to disagree, because to me it sounds foolish to keep insisting that making a cake is participating in a ceremony. I constantly prescribe plan b drugs, and treat STIs. That doesn’t mean that I condone the behavior of the patients, but I’m still obligated to provide them with care.
There are many people objecting to being forced to prescribe drugs that take the life of a child. I hope they succeed. It is also taking part in something unethical. As to STIs, treating an illness does not mean you condone what caused that illness, and it’s
healing a person rather than dishing out death, as does ‘plan B.’
That’s another area we are going to have to disagree on. I know as a matter of faith that God loves me, and that he created me the way he intended, and that he intended me to love the way he made me.
I agree. God loves you. God loves me. God loves everyone. That doesn’t mean He loves every action. It doesn’t mean that he loves adultery because those two people are ‘loving the way he intended them to love.’
Homosexuality is definetly a sin. smh