Faith writes:
This is not about "sexuality," it is not about "gender," it is about changing the law of marriage, which, believe it or not, is not necessarily specifically Christian, but universal, and forcing people to acknowledge a marriage they do not believe qualifies as a marriage. FORCING this on people. This is a violation of freedom of conscience.
The law does not force anyone to believe that gay marriage is ok in the mind of whatever god you think is offended by it. You are perfectly entitled to go on thinking that it's wrong and no-one will be arrested for it. No-one is FORCING anything on you Faith. You don't even have to marry another woman.
I believe in freedom to sin, up to a point, mainly because there's no way to prevent it (though it would be good for people and for the society if we could). The kind of sins that don't harm others, I mean of course; but I don't believe in freedom to make others treat someone's sin as not a sin, or treat a false marriage as a marriage.
I think I'm right in saying that you regard sex between people of the same sex a sin? And a gay marriage as a false marriage? So nothing has changed has it? You're free to go right on believing what you're believing and if you're ever asked to take photographs at a gay wedding, I suggest you just say that you're already booked on that day.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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