darth_ender said:
TheBoost said:
If the issue is "This Christian school has the right to discriminate" then that's a different question. But let's not do some mental hoop jumping to act like it's not discrimination.
If TheBoost is telling me that I have the right to join the Muslim Brotherhood and that there should be protests if anyone wishes to infringe on that right, then maybe I'm starting to see his point.
In reality, equality is a goal for all, but it is unachievable in practice, especially since the definition of equality in each circumstance will forever be in a state of flux.
Regardless of the laws of the land, my church will never perform homosexual marriages. We have the right to discriminate, just like we can discriminate against marriage with animals (with definable personalities, at least). Such is the nature of freedom. There must also be freedom to discriminate, even when at times others find that discrimination offensive. If you thought about the many behaviors you don't approve of, or how many outspoken individuals have lost their jobs due to racist comments, you'd realize that you discriminate, with every legal right to do so.
Every man has the right to join the Muslim Brotherhood as long as he is a Muslim. Just as every gay can get married in a Muslim country...to a member of the opposite sex.
"Never" is a bold term to throw around. I venture that some LDS based church will at some point perform a same sex wedding or blessing. Other Christian churches already do but not all of them obviously, Some synagogues do too and did this before the civil legislation in the UK legitimised those marriages in a legal context.
I don't know of anyone who wants to force a Church to marry them. It's a different kettle of fish when people run a public business and refuse to serve people because they are gay or of a different ethnicity or creed. Nobody is immune for that sort of error.