Are you suggesting that the state's anti-discrimination law is comparable to the conservative "war-mongering, civil rights denying, environment destroying" agenda?
No, I am saying that this state has provided me with no basis to put it, nor its values, ahead of my religious affiliations. Any use of the state for the determination of "right" and "wrong" has to deal with the fundamentally flawed nature of our state.
The religious argument against homosexuality, rooted not in fact but in emotion, can only devolve into, and therefore always leads to, hyperbolic comparisons of this sort, meant ostensibly to show (since non-religious people "can't see for themselves") how 'destructive' homosexuality is...
But you have missed the point that I was actually making...
I guess it's just hard for me to reconcile my experience of knowing many good and loving queer parents
I grew up in a broken home, but that did not change the fact that I grew up in a loving home with good parenting. But that fact doesn't change the detrimental developmental effect that it had on me either.
Re: In Your Defensiveness, You're Becoming a Proponent of OBVIOUSLY "Un-Christian" Cruelty!
No, I am saying that this state has provided me with no basis to put it, nor its values, ahead of my religious affiliations. Any use of the state for the determination of "right" and "wrong" has to deal with the fundamentally flawed nature of our state.
The religious argument against homosexuality, rooted not in fact but in emotion, can only devolve into, and therefore always leads to, hyperbolic comparisons of this sort, meant ostensibly to show (since non-religious people "can't see for themselves") how 'destructive' homosexuality is...
But you have missed the point that I was actually making...
I guess it's just hard for me to reconcile my experience of knowing many good and loving queer parents
I grew up in a broken home, but that did not change the fact that I grew up in a loving home with good parenting. But that fact doesn't change the detrimental developmental effect that it had on me either.