That's the bogus comparison you all try to make. Sin is not the same thing as race, and people ought to know better than to make such a comparison.
Well, on the one hand there are plenty of people who think that homosexuality is no sin.
And on the other hand, there are and were people who think that the abolition of racial segregation was sinful.
* "The good Lord was the original segregationist." --- Ross Barnett, Governor of Mississippi.
* "[T]he natural law which forbids [racial intermarriage] and that social amalgamation which leads to a corruption of races, is as clearly divine as that which imparted to [the races] different natures." --- Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1867.
* "There is every reason to believe that miscengenation and amalgamation are sins of man in direct defiance to the will of God." --- Theodore Bilbo, two-time Governor of Mississippi and U.S. Senator.
* "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix." --- Judge Leon M. Bazile, January 6, 1959.
Or have a look at
this article in defense of segregation, which cites many chapters and verses of the Bible:
* "Many others are pushing integration: The YMCA, religious liberals, various dubbed dogooders, etc., and many sincere and good ministers of the Gospel. They have succumbed to and been traduced by the integration propaganda of the Communist Party, the NAACP, and various liberal and unorthodox theologians bleating their shibboleths of 'Justice' and 'Freedom.' In the interest of their unnatural religious and social philosophy, they are working to destroy the races that God has created, crying 'oneworld brotherhood' and 'racial equality,' neither of which conceptions have any substantiation whatsoever in the Scripture."
Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Now let the author tell you why it's sinful to appoint black people to positions in the government:
* "The plan moves on apace. An editorial in Life informs us with pride that President Eisenhower "has appointed more than a dozen Negroes to important government positions, notably J. Ernest Wilkins of Chicago, Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs and the first Negro to achieve subcabinet rank." We are told also that "Sherman Adams' staff includes the first White House Negro secretary." It might be a good thing for the President, his advisers, and the voters as well, to remember what happened to King Jeroboam and other rulers in Israel for making the same mistake. Yes, the Bible is a discriminating Book, both as to race and creed."
Now, my point is that you can hardly expect the law to single out
your notion of what is sinful as the correct one that should be followed, over and above that of other religious groups. Instead, we have a secular Constitution where the concept of
sin as such is irrelevant.
But being forced to make a wedding cake or take photographs which would be specifically a validation of the gay lifestyle when you consider gay marriage to be a violation of a basic principle given by God, is what I mean by tyranny.
And is it also "tyranny" when someone who sincerely believes that interracial marriage is "a violation of a basic principle given by God" discriminates against a mixed-race couple rather than "validate" their "lifestyle"?
If the only difference is that
you personally think that one is against God's principles and the other isn't, then you don't have a leg to stand on. The law cannot exalt the doctrines of
your chosen sect of
your chosen religion over other sects and religions.
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