You are amazing.
Thanks being being one of the few on this forum who understand that gay marriage is no big deal, unless you’re actually gay. The sky didn’t fall in June, July, August, September, October or the first 4 days of November, and it won’t fall again when Prop 8 gets overturned. There are way better ways for Catholics to show that Jesus loves everyone besides wanting to break up families.
So thanks again.
And this can be turned right around on you: When prop 8 passed, did the sky fall? Did the world end? No. Did homosexuals have to give up their “alternative life style?” No. Although the way they were acting, you would have thought so. If the court upholds prop 8 (most legal analyists are saying it will- yet at the same time allow the previous “marriages” to remain valid.)
Hence it works both ways. Whatever happens the world will keep turning. That is not the question. The question is what the homosexual community is demanding. It is one thing to ask for and expect “tolerance” and even “respect” for them as people of the state and people of God. However it is quite another to demand “acceptance” and even demand that that the state and people condone, support, and endorse their behavior. That is what the big deal is, and that goes too far.
The reality is that IF homosexuals are truly conmfortable with who they are, they don’t need the state or its people to endorse them or their life style. They ought to be quite confortable with the fact that the majority of people tolerate their life style in the name of “freedom” etc. One needs to ask them “Why do you feel you need the approval of the state and the large majority of its people for your life style?” The reality is that most people do not approve, why does that bother the homosexual community?
Sir, I think the real issue has nothing to do with marriage, etc. The real issue has to do with whether or not the homosexual community feels that the majority of people endorse and condone their behavior, as opposed to merely tolerate it. If the court overturns prop 8- they will see it as a victory not becasue they can all get married necessarily, (thought that would certainly be part of it) but becasue they will see it as a vindication of their life style. The thing is that a court victory will be an illusion. It will give the apprearence that their behavior is condoned and endorsed, when in reality it is forced and imposed on people by the holy high few unelected unaccountable judges. People will come to resent them even more if they get a court victory. Is that what they really want?
Though I cannot condone or support homosexual behavior as a Catholic Christian- becasue God has revealed it is not part of his plan for the human race, I can tolerate and respect homosexuals as people of God and people of the state. I (most likely just like everyone else) have homosexual friends. I think the CA homosexual community can do a lot more for itself by letting the issue drop. The more they push and sue, the more they are going to turn people against their cause. If they want to “marry” they should seek to make it happen the same way prop 8 happend- not through the courts- where by a high, hold, few activsts judges simply impose their view on everyone, but constitutionally and through the legeslative process. The courts were never meant to legeslate. Right now the ammendment stands. Instead of sue, sue, sue, and having the activist courts hand them everything they want on a silver pladder, use the legeslative process, just like the supporers of prop 8 did.
