Opponents. How has gay marriage negatively effected your life?

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  1. chris155au

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    You ALREADY admitted it:
     
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    Correct, a Christian or a Jew could not claim a religious objection to YOU burning a Bible.
     
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    Whatever, do you have a point?
     
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    The only objection they would have to burning their own Bibles that it's wasteful
     
  5. chris155au

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    Would you object to burning the American flag?
     
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    Even though you have admitted that the Bible means more than other books for Christians and Jews!
     
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    This is a VERY broad standard. So ANYTHING which cannot be sourced from the Bible?
     
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    The Bible does mention cake!
    Elijah the prophet commanded a drought that lasted 3 and a half years. He was drinking his water from a brook, but that too went dry. So God told him to find a widow in a specific town to sustain him.
    He arrived there tired and dehydrated, and when he asked the widow for food she announced they were down to the last grain, intending to make one last mean then slowly starve to death.
    Elijah said,
    "MAKE ME A LITTLE CAKE FIRST"
    She did and the meal multiplied, allowing the 3 of them to eat every day until the famine ended.
     
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    forgot to mention the last time gay marriage negatively affected my life.
    About 4 weeks ago I visited the Arnold Arboretum, a plant sanctuary I spent a lot of time at in my youth. My last stop was atop a big hill I used to climb and use for sledding in the winter. I was very tired and planned to stay a long time. Soon after I arrived a straight couple became engaged. Everyone applauded and took pictures.
    I left when 2 young men on bicycles showed up.
     
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    'm also this is the start of a "ruined my life" series of threads.
    Going backwards that would be: the pandemic, Obamacare, 9/11, Y2K, the Clinton scandals, the 1991 tax increase, Reaganomics, draft registration, Watergate, Roe versus Wade, Vietnam War, the Voting Rights Act, the Iran Revolution, Brown versus the Board of Education, the Taft-Hartley Act, Pearl Harbor, the New Deal, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, letting women vote, the Federal Reserve, the Panama Canal, Plessey versus Ferguson and the McKinley Tariff.
     
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    Careful, you are deflecting. Defend your position.
     
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    Not to worry, the Taliban will soon replace the American left by birth. The leftists will get exactly what they want.
     
  13. Cybred

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    Actually, it's just you.
     
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    What does this have to do with anything?
     
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    Yeah even though it's still just a book.
     
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    What do you think Christianity is based on?
     
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    Yes Cybred, I might be the only person alive who would leave a blissful setting prematurely on the slight chance that 2 men would become engaged to each other. However equally remote possibilities keep me from working during a tropical depression, taking a short boat trip anywhere, visiting certain parks, traveling through certain neighborhoods and other basic activities.
    20 years ago I would not have left because there would have been no chance 2 men would get engaged for a lawful marriage. 50 years ago it would have crossed no one's mind that they might be homosexuals. That was better.
    So the existence of homosexuals is one of many things that make my life unpleasant, as is the atom bomb, air pollution, world hunger, cigarettes, alcohol and many other things. Unlike some of those things, it is getting harder and harder to avoid hearing about.
     
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  18. Cybred

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    Not really since they have always existed.
     
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    Lots of things have long existed, but only a few of them have been forcing me to learn all their names and addresses.
     
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    They haven't forced you to do anything.
     
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    The Bible.
     
  22. Polydectes

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    So show me in the Bible where it says thou shalt not do commerce with certain people.
     
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    What does that have to do with what Christianity is based on?
     
  24. Polydectes

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    Duh...
     
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  25. Cybred

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    Christianity is based on being as christ-like as possible.
     

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