Woah, woah. I said that the laws against polygamy are something that need to be looked at. But child molestation is child molestation. I suspect that if polygamy were legal, families that practice polygamy would be more in the open and less afraid of their government.
See, this is where your argument falls apart. You are willingly to let Group B rewrite what the definition of marriage to accomadate their lifestyle. So now Group C jumps up and down and says, “hey what about *our *lifestlye?” But now you turnaround and tell them, “No, you can’t marry 14 year old girls, its the law, deemed good for society, by the will of the people.” And that is the exact same premise we are using to quash the activists attempt to redefine marriage, but when applied to *YOUR *group you don’t wanna hear it.
The will of the people over and over again has demonstrated a marriage is a man and a woman.
All this stuff in the past, about interracial marriage, slavery, discrimination, is a moot point. At least 50 years since any of that happened. The will of the people spoke and such laws were struck down. End of story. Now if the people of California had approved the gay marriage measure when it was voted on, I would have been saddened, but the will of the people would have been made clear.
Activists always bring up gays are being discriminated against. Totally false. I asked prior, show me a bus they gotta sit in the back of? Show me a workplace they are not allowed to enter, show me a movie house they can’t get into, show me where they are denied housing, show me where the police have taken someone to jail for being gay. A gay person has the same right EVERY American enjoys, if he is a victim of discrimination he has a path to take for relief.
Systematic discrimination of gays in this country is FALSE. Now can you go out and show examples of individual prejuidice? Sure you can, here’s a secret, some people don’t like gays, deal with it. Just as some don’t like Catholics, I deal with it, now if I’m fired from a job and I can prove it was religious based, well somebody is gonna pay me alot of money. But the system in place does NOT support you firing me for being Catholic, and it does the same for gays, but that doesn’t isolate me from individual biases out here in the real world.
But gay activists see EVERYBODY out to get them, especially the Catholic Church, calling Her intolerant, homophobe etc. but She has never taught the mistreatment of these individuals.
DIscrimination is NOT the issue,
marriage definition is, and the majority of the people have spoken. I don’t care what couple does, as long as they are not breaking the law. Two men wanna live together and call it a marriage? I don’t care, just don’t redefine MY marriage in the process, by telling me if my wife were a man that would be ok to. LOL.
This debate is NOT about homosexuality, yes, as Catholics we believe its wrong, but we make no judgement on those that embrace it, we’ll refer that to a Higher Power. This debate is about which side is gonna define what constitutes a marriage.
