"We are also stretching the word 'belief' here a bit. I don't have any 'beliefs' that drive my opinions on gay marriage. I don't "'believe' that gay marriage would have no ill affect on the institution of marriage. All reasonable and obvious secular evidence suggests such. There is no secular reason to oppose gay marriage that I am aware of. Only theological ones."
All I believe is that those who support gay marriage have the right to lobby for it and those who don't support it have the right to lobby against it. I haven't put any time into investigate if there would be any ill effects on anything. Off the top of my head, I can think of one financial reason why some would oppose it. It is strictly in terms of having two same sex friends marry in order to draw financial benefits from a state or company. I guess that could happen with opposite sex couples as well though, but it doesn't seem as likely. "J, come on, do i really need to add "but this is just my opinion" on the end of EVERYTHING I state?" Looked like you were stating an absolute. Good to know that you don't believe it is an absolute. You can never tell with some people. As a complete of the topic aside on the issue of absolutes, it is impossible to debate as an atheist. As an atheist, one has to debate that God does not exist. How can one know that unless that person knows everything. Hence that person becomes God. So, in proper philosophical debates, atheists almost always debate as agnostics. J - Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny - Thomas Jefferson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353434 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
