I was eye-rolling the notion that anyone who believes in God and takes their definition for marriage from the Holy Book don't deserve to have opinions
on the matter. So, apparently, I don't deserve to have an opinion.
IMO, BKT is essentially saying anyone that has an opinion different than his doesn't deserve to have one. That's bullshit to me.
That said, I have yet to figure out just what I will say to my kids when this comes up... but as a Muslim I'm going to be clear that acting on
homosexual urges is considered a sin in Islam. A sin as serious as fornication(sex outside marriage) or adultery. Kirk Cameron's religious morals give
him that same conviction, and why the hell should he have to defend that to anyone? That said, I doubt Kirk takes it upon himself to treat people as
subhuman if he believes their lifestyle or actions are immoral... but if he does, well, fuck him.
Personally, I think government should get the hell out of the business of marriage any way you define it. Marriage has been a religious institution
for the better part of 2,000 years in the Western world, agreed upon and done under the auspices of the Church for the length of that time. As a civil
union it flows out of that long tradition. As far as I'm concerned let the religious institutions concern themselves with marriage, and as individual
bodies they can decide what marriages are and are not acceptable to them. Meanwhile, government can bother themselves with civil unions open to anyone
that wants them and all the legal rights currently associated marriage are covered there-in. |