Boycott Chick-fil-A with me!

again mormonism is not anti-gay. We are taught to love anyone even if we do not like the sin. The mormon church teaches love and compassion but carry a strong moral belief in marriage being between a man and a woman. To turn around call a church that practices and preaches its own beliefs as oppressive or anti-gay is moronic. its a difference in perception and opinion from 2 different groups of people.
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And please don't consider this a derailment. I see a negative jab at my religion and I just react. No more from me.
 
IvyFanboy said:
I for one am fine with say Christians, but when I see them applying their faith to political practice and voting power I am deeply offended by the abuse of power.
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Yeah you can have ideals but don't vote on them or act on them and you damn well better keep them a secret! That's what I call liberty.
 
Ghengis_John said:
Yeah you can have ideals but don't vote on them or act on them and you damn well better keep them a secret! That's what I call liberty.
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Have to agree, in all honesty guys biased voting(the suggested abuse of power) occurs from every group and class of people. Nobody has the right to point at religion and say thats the worst of type. I also have to say let groups practice what they please. I remember in middle school Christian students got in school suspension for "insubordination" when they refused to wash ash from their forehead on a religious holiday.

By all means believe and practice your beliefs, however if someone takes this to mean feel free to criticise my lqck of belief you're crossong a line, more sk when a grohp of people are denied basic freedoms because your particular beliefs say its a no-no(this you/your isnt actually to anyone).
 
No because the system is intended to be fair to all faiths and religion is a personal practice not national one. It's fine to be outspoken about it, but attempting to weave it into government and government backed things such as public school is the issue, at the same time they should be given freedom to practice in more situations that don't directly affect others. There are often many rules which are unfair to religion and then others that give it unfair advantage. Context is everything.

Sephalump has a good example of when it's unfair to religion. The ash has no real affect on anyone else and demands no special attention or alterations to let simply be. A public school should be very diverse and allow practice, but not necessarily promote it. EX: a school doesn't need to support Bible or gay clubs, but they should have rules that demand tolerance for the groups.

So no, I dont ask that they hide their voice, but implement it appropriately. Push for things that allow your practice, but don't weave your practice into law. If ANYTHING that should be obvious IN the bible. The whole book preaches 2 very key factors that are over looked:

  • We are given free will to decide right and wrong, and if you take away the concept of choice you both deny what is cherished about our humanity and your act of accepting and following faith are invalid as the drive to follow is based on alternative motives (fear, acceptance of others, law, ignorance, etc...).
  • You are NOT supposed to be judge. God gets PISSED when someone does his job. If you disagree and no one's raining bullets on your family, your options are let God sort it out in the end or preach his message. Turning his voice into law is a VERY obvious over stepping of bounds within the religion, not just politics. It's not humanities job to interpret THEN apply outwardly and then go a step further and assign punishments for the act.
 
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