Blog Stage 8

This post is a comment on another post from 'Living In An Individualistic Culture'.

I agree with you wholeheartedly. Gay/lesbian couples should be allowed to marry and receive all the same protections and benefits that heterosexual couples are afforded. Your statements about the separation of church and state are spot-on. Every argument I have heard against homosexual couples is founded on religious beliefs stating that homosexuality is sinful and will erode the moral fiber of our nation. Is that Christian moral fiber? Muslim moral fiber? Atheist moral fiber? (Do atheists have moral fiber? I hope so) I was under the impression that moral fiber in this country rested in your respect for and compassionate treatment of others and not in your beliefs. Other arguments claim that a child who is raised by homosexual parents will turn out damaged or sinful. I want to know how. Does the simple act of two men or two women declaring love for each other and establishing a household together create a sin-storm that shoots bolts of evil into the world? I haven't seen it. I know for a fact though that many terrible criminals considered to be of the lowest moral fiber came from homes with heterosexual parents. And many of them considered themselves to be Christian. So obviously an individual's beliefs and the sexual orientation of their parents are not the key determining factors of their character and their value to society. Would the devout people out there please succumb to reason and at least consider some common sense in regards to this topic?