Same-sex marriages have zero effect on religious extremists.
A same-sex married couple doesn't prevent your relationship with God or with Christ or your fidelity to Christ's teachings.
So, I'm left concluding that your faith in God is very fragile and weak in the first place.
It's the standard Maga mentality. I don't want you to have what I have unless you are just like me, if you have it too and aren't my clone, it's not as valuable. Applies whether it's voting rights, free speech, marriage equality, work compensation or anything else.
Kim Davis’ four marriages and adultery practices have had zero effect on my life. Her being an ahole could possibly affect my life.
They just hate gay people. Simple as that.
A marriage is a marriage is a marriage. Their morbid fascination borders on obsession. They need to keep their noses out of other people’s lives.
They want to heed Marcus Aurelius – (A.D. 121-180) words. Their God will not care how devout they have been, but he will welcome them based on the Virtues they have lived by. Being more worried about same-sex marriages is not living your life with Virtue but with viciousness, uncharitable.
H. L. Mencken: ‘Puritanism .. the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy’.
If there was an overarching message in Jesus' ministry it was to call out hypocrisy.
Speck, meet Plank in Eye.
I leave same-sex couples alone & I tend to find that they leave me alone. Except for invitations to weddings!
I come to that same conclusion and I also have to assume that you only use God and religion as a tool to oppress people that have absolutely no affect on your life and so you only want to see them suffer because you are a cruel, evil asshole.
I always tell my religious bigoted relatives “I’m deeply offended that you are offended by something that is none of your fucking business”. I don’t know why but it never comes up again.
I’ve decided that they are all people who can’t mind their own business. Hey they got Roe overturned. 🤬
My wife and I were married in San Francisco when Gavin opened the doors in 2004. In those 21 years, we have bought two houses, had a child, gone through other major milestones and paid a shit load of taxes. But somehow my marriage, is destroying Kimmy’s relationship with Christ? Fu#k her!
Anyone who feels the need to stop this is NOT a decent human being. Love is Love. Period.
Human 'invented god' to reflect & justify their OWN beliefs.
Dear reader,
If you oppose marriage equality, remember that Adam's rib was composed of male DNA.
Either Adam and Yves were the first male-male couple, or Eve was the first transexual.
There are no other explanations.
Your own bible advocates same-sex marriage. Maybe you can too.
If you are opposed to same-sex marriage, just say no when someone of the same sex asks you to marry them! It's really quite simple!
Same sex marriages have no affect on anyone but the married couple
They will still be married.
In my eyes.
GOD damn all of these hate-filled bigots.
Marriage is primarily for financial and legal purposes anyway. Xtians can’t stand that gays have any type of equality.
Even they know it doesn’t impede their relationship with God. They just want an excuse to terrorize people and tally their heaven points at the same time.
Years ago, I joked that if conservatives really hated gay people they would make them marry and divorce like everyone else.
It’s less people for them to control in their cults
Traditional marriages of man & woman. 🤔 dont corner market of successful marriages or divorces etc. Is Trump and these Holier than thou rollers going to ban divorces? Force women to stay in abusive marriages? It's hypocritical and cruel to force people back in the Dark Ages
Unforunately, their bond with Republican Jesus is solid.
The point could be made even more strongly, in terms of what they claim to care about. If you actually listen to many religious same-sex couples, getting married and having a family is a really important element in their relationship with God that would actually be undermined by preventing it.
A lot of them have the view that if others are 'sinners' then they will make 'god' angry and it will somehow rebound on them as individuals. Religion is a very selfish ideology and all about making sure no. 1 is ok.
Exactly!
My grandma was a Christian and I remember her being like “I don’t understand why on earth anyone cares whether or not gay people get married.” Seems like a normal attitude for a Christian to have.
On point!
You're referring to classic Jesus, not Republican Jesus.
Kindly get YOUR God outta MY face.
Marriage licenses are issued by the state, not a church. So denying a class of people a license to wed is discrimination plain and simple.
Peter Thiel , Scott Bessent, and the Log Cabin Republicans , friends of Melania , Richard Grendel all in this Administration
It’s about power & domination. You know many of these folks are on the down low. They don’t love God. They want gay marriage overturned, & they want to criminalize any type of sex involving consenting gay adults. It’s all part of the plan. Next comes overturning the 19 th amendment. Fight like hell
It makes no sense… never understood it… in fact I think marriage is a stupid construct and should be done away with.. and rather a contractual arrangement with exit strategy and division of property should replace it. When the inevitable separation takes place.. maybe it’s just me..
Unfortunately, "freedom of religion" for the Christian nationalist types means "freedom to force my religion on everyone else."
And because hate is an easy drug. Your brain makes all that adrenaline and endorphins on its own. Also because hate is an easy weapon, because hate is an easy drug, and we all know most churches aren’t about religion but political power, and power requires weapons.
why doesn't that argument work in court? we get every excuse under the sun; but the courts never acknowledge the fact that the argument in front of them is based solely in religion
This is all true. But they want everyone to be as frightened and emotionally stunted by religion as they are. Plus their idea of freedom is THEIR freedom from having to see/hear people do things that their religion says are wrong -- especially if nothing bad happens to those people. It's twisted.
Like rape, same-sex marriage isn't about sex, it's about power.
My conclusion is that the Christian religion is steeped in and has always been steeped in hatred. Kim Davis’s current push w/ Liberty Counsel’s backing is absolute proof of that obvious fact.
Au contraire. If same-sex marriage is legal, closeted gay men who cheat on their wives have one fewer excuse to give their boyfriends.
I’m left wondering why you care about anyone else’s life, when you should be concerned about the state of your own soul. Don’t you guys read the New Testament, or do you stop reading the Bible before it?
Agreed. Based on that, there is no way any court should allow them to claim they have standing to file any lawsuits.
Christ’s teachings? These frauds? That’s a laugh.
If they don't want same sex marriage, they don't need to have one lol. That's what I always say.
Being raised in a very catholic family, to the point I was at church all day Wednesday instead of school like my friends. Not one of my family members has an issue with people marrying who ever they want. All they care about is people being happy and loved. Now my Christian side, nothing but hate
Bingo.
Extremism is their religion. That’s why they interpret freedom of religion as permission to persecute everyone else.
We all know that the hatred that motivates this cruelty has nothing to do with God. Not a single thing.
What these people believe in isn't God, it's a belief in their own righteousness that drives them.
Their holy book says it's wrong so they must comply even though they very likely would refuse to acknowledge that their holy book promotes slavery, condones rape, promotes human sacrifice and genocide (for not believing in their god).
They are cherry pickers. In other words, they're hypocrites.
I was driving in Niagara Falls, Canada & I noticed couples walking hand in hand, all kinds of couples. It was beautiful. You could feel the love & the freedom of people being who they are. This is how it should be everywhere. It's no one's business & everyone deserves happiness.
The Nazis went after gay & trans-people, too.
So many think trans-people are some new invention of the woke libtards, but no. They are just another expression of the human rainbow & have always been with us.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology
Exactly
Amen
“My wife can barely stand me as it is! How’s she gonna feel when the gays can start getting married?!”
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They think if something is forbidden to them, it must be forbidden for everyone. They hate freedom.
it’s pretext
Well said.
Charlotte, this is exactly what I have been thinking for quite awhile.
If someone has to insist that everybody live according to their beliefs, I'd say their so-called "faith" is weak indeed.
To them, Religion is a cudgel. It’s just one more tool to make you do what they want.
Same sex marriage violates Christians' god-given right to control people's genitalia.
Also according to the Christian bible we’re all judged for our individual choices and actions. Even if Gay Marriage is a sin, my neighbors sins have zero bearing on my salvation.
Zealots don't care about opinions, facts, secular nation... anything other than their theocratic belief system.
Republicans are insane. Start there.
I suspect it’s not about feeling threatened—it’s about proving loyalty to their god by choosing an enemy, persecuting them, and expecting divine kickbacks in health, wealth, and status. That’s not fragile faith; that’s celestial quid pro quo. Pure transactional piety, not defensive belief.
Amen to that. The lack of self awareness is mind blowing. If they look in the mirror there's the Muslim (or any extremist) they are so appalled and afraid of
They think god and their Bible give them license to demand how others live. The worst inhumanities are caused by people who believe they have a Holy Mandate.
They are just a religious HOA. They get off on controlling other people.
Just haters they use God as a shield to protect their black heart.
My ex and I joked about driving around and breaking up hetero marriages by our married-queer vibes.
Naw… their “faith” is just an excuse to lash out in frustration over gays and lesbians having the courage to live their best lives when they themselves are repressed.
