JohnnyRancid
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Evilalien4 said:
Surely its just down to the classic old nature/nuture debate? Its just down to preference - i mean i may be a straight man but that doesn´t mean im attracted to every girl. In fact where i come from there is a real shortage of hot women!
I couldn't agree more. I think people can become gay the same way people can get into emo music. It's just what they like. I like punk, and ska and hardcore music, but there are tons of bands in all of those genres that I think are shit. And I think once people pick a side, they feel obligated to stay on that side. If they keep switching sides, it gets on people's nerves. And I'm pretty sure humans have a desire to be liked or at least accepted.
I'm not as concerned with the causes of gay people, their already here and no one has an exact answer, we'll just be shooting the same evidence back and forth, and no one's gonna give up, because people are already inclined to pick a side and stay with it, even if the results are questionable.
My real concern is blurry line between church and state. I know we're all in favor of keeping religion out of our justice system. But I had learned as a child when I was brought up, that marriage was a religious action. In fact, Marriage is one of the 7 sacraments in Roman Catholic Christianity. It clearly states in the religious education text books I used to have, that marriage is a union between a man and a woman. Not man and man, or woman and woman. Apparently that's not the case anymore. Maybe gays can be married legally in California, but that doesn't mean they're married in religious terms. The question that I'm inferring, is a simple case of "What came first, the chicken or the egg?". Except in this case, what came first, religious marriages, or legal marriages?
In my eyes they used to be the same thing, but I can see they are starting to break apart, and becoming more distinctive, until we may have to declare marriages as obsolete. It's a real horror to imagine, it's starting to frighten me a little. I hope there's a realistic solution.
Before I rant on more about this stuff, I don't really know a whole lot about foreign religions, and cultures. All states and cultures host marriages right? Do other religions besides Christianity say anything about marriage as a religious practice?
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