Important Questions (1)

September 6, 2009, 7:56 am by dc-agape.

Last week I ask some tough questions to one of my Christian commenters.  I had a reason for each of the questions.  You see, Christians worship a supreme being that is known for compassion, justice, and love.  The questions I ask should have included two more, but I thought I had covered all the important topics.  I will add the importance to those two questions in late post.  I will explain the reason for each of the questions in the next nine posts.  The purpose of the questions was to determine if our commenter was True to the Christ-like qualities expected from Christians.

How do True Christians respond to the desire of homosexuals to have the same legal rights as heterosexuals to marry the person they love?  Specifically I asked how my commenter responded to the approval of California Prop #8. 

The USA Declaration of Independence includes this passage:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

If “all men are created equal” then why are homosexually not allowed to have the same unalienable Rights to pursue Happiness as a heterosexually?  Either the foundations of the USA are anti-Christian or Christians are using only parts of our heritage for their specific “goals”.  Notice that the writers of this Document include “all men”, “their Creator”, and “unalienable Rights” in one sentence.  At the time of writing this Document the authors did qualify “all men” to only include Caucasian men who owned land.  Since then our nation was included non-Caucasians and women.  Both struggles were long, hard, and dangerous.  Have we not learned anything for the past?  Why do the followers of a compassionate and just supreme being not only deny these simple acts of compassion and justice but vigorously demand (Constitutional Amendments) to control other human beings? 

The act of deny Freedom and the pursuit of Happiness are extremes in the act of being non-compassionate and removing justice from a country founded exactly on those principles.  Both gay men and lesbian are requesting the same rights as any other human being in the US of A.  Yet it is the compassionate, just Christians that are leading the fight to deny these unalienable rights from people that they dislike (Hate? Fear?). 

To say the least, this is pure fodder for the Atheist!  The contradiction between claiming to be compassionate and just and the actions that Christians take on such a civil rights matter are so blatant that very few Atheist bloggers have rejected the rights to homosexuals.  In fact, most Atheist blog writer scathing rebukes towards this undeniable hypocrisy!  Do remember, that civil marriage is not religious marriage.  Churches do not have to provide marriage location to those that are not members of that particular congregation!  The Catholic Churches certainly do this.  As many have said before…if you don’t want to have a homosexual marriage, don’t have one.  But denying the right to pursue happiness and the freedom to marry the person you love is antithetical to the founding of our Nation. 

The first argument that this type of logic receives from Christians is that our Government was designed by “Christians”!  Yet if that was the case, why is the 1^st Amendment to the Constitution of the USA the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and the freedom to peacefully assemble.  Why would the founding “Fathers” want to ensure that any form of religion be accepted!  If they had meant only the Christian religion, what about the Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist in our country?  Should we deny them the right to worship freely because our founding “Fathers” were from a diverse European Christian heritage? Of course not!  So the same cannot be applied to those who do not “obey” the Christian doctrine that homosexuality is “sinful”. 

The second argument that this type of logic receives is the “slippery slope” concept.  This argument goes something like this…where will it end if we allow these “people” to marry?  Of course this is smoke and mirrors.  The first “slope” is polygamy.  The Christian’s own Bible approves of marriage were more than one wife is involved!  Mormonism is based on this concept (they do not practice…much); the Muslim faith allows this as well.  Of course, the slope is even steeper than this.  Christians attempt to claim that if the US allows homosexuals to marry other forms of “sinful” marriage will follow…child marriages, animal-human marriages, etc.  Shall I use the nations of Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and South Africa as proof that this slippery slope does not occur?I could continue with the “arguments” against gay marriage, but since they are purely propaganda I will end with this link to Yes on Gay Marriage.  This link includes the top nine myths that our loving, compassionate, just Christians have fabricated to stir public opinion to their side of the “debate”.

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