Gay Marriage

[André Axe'm]

sharia law and stoning women to death?
The hanging gays? [as seen in Iran]

Such practises which we generally see as barbaric, are a consequence of someone imposing their beliefs upon others. What was said is that we should respect what others believe, and not impose our own beliefs upon them.
We would not be denying them the ability to practice their own beliefs, we would be denying them from imposing their beliefs upon others.

[skitzor]

I don't feel that hate's the right reaction to direct in either of those cases. Derision, scorn, disbelief, dismissal yes... but not necessarily hate. You can strenuously argue against something without hating it, and hating just lowers everything into an us vs them, where the real issue on this topic is inclusiveness... is what I took DX's argument to be. So hate becomes counter-productive.

but if you display derision, scorn or dismissal, some people will see that as hate. I don't even know if I would call anything said seriously on this thread hate, instead of derision, scorn or dismissal (and if there was, there wasn't much). but petti decided it wasn't supportive of the point of view, so it must be hate.

[DarkMellie]

I think this thread has run its course. Sharia Law? Bashing Gay Bashers? And way too much religious discussion. It's time to fill in this rabbit hole.


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