werepossum
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Because it does not affect us. Of all the ways I may offend G-d, homosexuality is not one I have to worry about. Human nature is to excuse our own failings, that we may better concentrate on the failings of others at no personal cost to ourselves. Thus we may oppose homosexual marriage, support tax increases on people who earn more than do we, oppose government giveaways we don't use . . . All at no cost to ourselves.Believing homosexuality is a sin doesn't make one a bigot. Christians believe that many things are sins. Greed, unkindness, working on the Sabbath. Christians also believe that all sins are equal because all sins lead to the ultimate sin, which is a lack of faith.
So the question is: why are so many Christians so focused on this one sin?
I suspect that the most morally damaging stance on any issue is the one that harms other people while not harming (or actually benefiting) ourselves. When examining any issue I try to put myself in the other guy's shoes, and I can tell you - if the government or my fellow Americans were insisting that I did not have the right to marry a consenting adult of my choice, but instead insisted that I must choose from among people to whom I have no sexual attraction, I would be pissed. Were I gay, I would not be one of these reasonable gays on Anandtech. I'd be one of the eternally pissed off in-your-face GLAAD gays, and I know it. Same if I were black; while I appreciate that we have equal opportunity, I would not let you forget that in my father's time you crackers* were artificially limiting his opportunity, which limits what he could do for me, which constrains my starting position in life, which affects what I can do for my kids.
* I can say that since in real life I am quite crackery myself. It's the Chris Rock principle.
Very good analogy.We have the rights I stated.
We don't have the rights I didn't state.
Why you think the right to have speak your mind without fear of arrest gives you freedom from all consequences of your speech is beyond my comprehension. It's like saying the right to own a gun (2nd amendment) gives you the right to shoot people.