- Lovesick.:
- I think the Church needs to step up. Especially Orthodox and Catholic ones. People listen to what the church tells them, but instead of trying to mediate the conflict they just make it worse. Most if not all, anti-gay protests or parades are organized by the church.
I had my hopes up that maybe this pope will be more gay-friendly. I was wrong. The patriarch is out of the question. Maybe the problem is that we're ruled by people in their 50's or 60's -wait I think the patriarch is 70 something- and when they grew up the world was totally different.
As for against-discrimination laws, yeah they would help but not solve the problem, I still think we should try and stop the feeling rather than the actions. Although I think it's time for a worldwide anti-discrimination policy and legislation.
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The problem (in my opinion) isn't the church, it's governments. I can understand people being denied religious aspects of life. I mean, Im an atheist, I wouldn't go to a church and ask for a shot of holy water. Obviously asking to get married isn't the same thing though, because there is more than just religion involved.
The way I look at it, if you're for or against gay marriage, no matter which side, you're discriminating against someone. If you're for it, then you're taking away the churches ability to designate how their religion should be practiced. if you're against it, you're denying citizens the legal rights of marriage. A civil partnership does not give gay people all the same legal rights as a married couple would have.
As marriage stands
now, Im against it in all cases. I think the religious aspects should be seperate from the legal aspects. Unil that happens, there is going to continue to be alot of unhappy people.