Gay marriage

Just because churches are not public places, doesn't mean I should respect their decisions. They use the money they get for personal gain, and they believe that the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause justify their discrimination. There is no such thing as a Christian business. Businesses are public. You can't pick and choose your customers based on your beliefs. I highly doubt you would think the same if you walked into a grocery store to buy some food, but they denied you service based on your skin color, using their religion to justify it. And if you believe that I am ignorant, and believe it is necessary to say it in your argument, then I guess I can say that you are an ignorant bigoted zealot that follows blind faith and refuses to question anything. You claim that you are being oppressed, or scrutinized. You're playing the victim card, and I fear that you might have Martyr complex, or Persecutory delusions. Christians are not being oppressed. Allowing homosexual people to get married is not oppressing you. Pastors and priests are not being forced to perform wedding ceremonies. Is it wrong not to allow people who love each other to not move to the next step, because of your beliefs? Yes. Would you be oppressing homosexuals by making them go "somewhere else" and not associating with them? Yes. It's because of Christians and bigots that the suicide rates are so high in homosexuals. You say you don't care about gay marriage, just about Christians being persecuted. This is simply not true. Look at what you titled the debate. Look at what your arguments are centered around. If you truly did not care about gay marriage, you would've created a debate about Christians being oppressed, and how. You say that homosexuals should just respect Christian's beliefs and go somewhere else. You say that we shouldn't teach kids about it. Guess what? If we did this, we would be treating homosexuals differently. We would be acting like it is not natural, and treating them like second class citizens. The Clauses don't protect you from shoving people out of your public business. The population of the United States won't be effected at all for letting two people get a piece of paper. If gay marriage wasn't legal, I highly doubt that the gays that want to be married would have children. If they wanted to, they could easily get a surrogate mother. You fail to quote ANY scripture to help your argument. In the New Testament, the only scripture that can be interpreted as against homosexuality are Romans 1:26-27, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, and Matthew 19:4-6. And all of these things can easily be debunked due to alternative interpretations, not just the "SEE GAYS BAD," view. Romans 1:26-27 has been interpreted as a rule stating that heterosexuals shouldn't act like homosexuals or that someone can change their sexuality, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 has been interpreted as "guys shouldn't act like girls," which reinforces gender roles and stereotypes, but does not directly effect homosexuals. And finally, Matthew 19:4-6 is simply stating Jesus' views on divorce. You say that there is no homosexual couples in favor of God in the Bible. While this does seem like you are grasping for straws, trying to defend your stance, numerous Christian do admit to the possibility of two gay relationships: Naomi+Ruth in the Book of Ruth, and David+Jonathan in 1 and 2 Samuel. You call sending people away from your church and business "common sense. " You say "they just need to find another place to go. " I, personally, think that churches should marry all people, but churches do have the right to pick and choose, but a public business does not. You say you're not judging the person, just "hating the sin," like your God said to do. The definition of judge is "to form an opinion after careful thought" or "decide if something is good or bad. " You are judging gay people. You're opinion is that gays are immoral. You believe that they demand marriages and that they should go somewhere else. You are judging them. Christians are not being oppressed. Their beliefs are not being challenged. You are not being forced to do anything that will drag you to second class citizens. Things are simply not going your way and you're whining about it. You have a right to do so. As I've said before, you have a right to be a sexist. You have the right to be a racist. You have the right to be a homophobe. You don't have the right to take others' rights. You don't have the right to force your beliefs onto people, or to make laws based on religious beliefs.