Do people who bash the Bible even read it or try to comprehend it? I’m not even a Christian but many of the arguments people use against it are weak. Do they teach what context is in school anymore?

And is it so hard to understand someone can disapprove of more than one thing? If they were going to bulldoze over a children’s park and build a Wal-Mart, does that mean you cannot protest it since you are not also protesting everything else you do not personally like?

Personally, I don’t get why they just don’t change all marriages to civil union, and then if you want to get married in a religious manner you can go to a church.

I also find it funny though how many people who claim to be “tolerant” would be actively against, say, marriage between a brother and sister, even though there is no logically consistent reason to ban marriage/sex between incestuous couples…unless you’d also want to ban non-related people with “bad genes” from marrying/having sex, and women over 40 since they have a higher chance of producing children with problems.

Hurray for hypocrisy.

What your side must understand is that you have hypocritically selected out gays as sinners who it’s okay for so-called Christians to hate, while you ignore those whose sins are treated much more harshly in the Bible, particularly adulterers and fornicators. To Christian extremists, it’s simply okay for these hellbound sinners to teach in schools, hold high elective office — like senator from Nevada and Louisiana and governor of South Carolina — and even preach the gospel, because they are straight.

As I have said ad nauseum, when Christianists start advocating restricting the civil rights of straight people who cheat on their spouses and couples who have sex outside wedlock with the same ferocity that they do gay people — when they raise millions of dollars to change state constitutions to prevent adulterers and fornicators from marrying or remarrying and to make it legal to fire and evict them for no reason other than their status as sinners — we’ll begin to believe that their animosity is legitimately based on Scripture, rather than on their own personal prejudice and, in too many cases, self-hatred.

The fact is, God has nothing to do with the gay marriage issue. Gays want the civil right to marry. That is a right protected by the government, not the church. Here’s proof: When people want a divorce they go to court, not to church.

in regards to your comment of using the “Bible selectivley” is you, with your quote of “Judge not lest ye be judged.” I know that is is so hard for people that are gay to understand that God designed a Man and a Woman for marriage, this is not “hate” it is God’s word.

Actually, I consider that Gay people are very hateful when one tends to disagree with their point of view in the matter of Gay Marriage, they go absolutly balistic, Example Paris Hilton vs. Ms. California. I do not consider that she was innapropriate or that her comments where offensive, she gave her point of view in the matter. On the other hand, Paris Hilton, went on a venomous rampage against the poor girl calling her every name in the book, when she gave her opinion.

Who is the the “hateful, intolerant Bigot, I ask?

It is a shame that this “man” represents the Gay Community. He is distastful, an ignorant making a living out of gossip, now that is true hate speech.

Perhaps the Apostle Paul should be labeled “homophobic” as well because he wrote to the following to the church at Corinth:

“Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (I Corinthians 6:9-11)”

It is possible to disagree about the inherent rightness of a behavior without condemning those who participate in it. Who can dare to judge the heart of a person to performs an action –whether we agree with it or not? We do not know how that person feels about his behavior-even when we know what he SAYS he feels about it; and we can’t know how he came to take that position.

God alone has the right to judge the heart of mankind–but every one of us has the responsbility of making a judicial decision about our own response to it.

Those who do not want to be judged should not judge others who may happen to disagree with them. To call Rick Warren a homophobic because of his statement is inconsistent.