You're right damo, but you miss the entire point of the thread....and Zappa mis-states it to confuse the issue.....
It has nothing to do with what is right or wrong or just or unjust or if the present law needs to be changed or remain as they are....
Thats a different issue altogether.....
The only debate here was to explain WHERE and WHY, marriage was considered BLESSED or sanctified by the religious believers......and Zappa is just being obtuse to not grasp
how or why it was thought of that way....
Its mindblowing how the lefties can succeed in spinning and confuse a simple issue with a continuous barrage of unrelated bullshit just because they were being schooled
on the original question of why marriage is considered blessed by religious people....and that is the issue in question......
The issue IS NOT if the belief is right or wrong, only why it is what it is....
Simply put....its their Bible that tells them the union between man and women (marriage) is a scared (blessed) thing. They think its the word of their God as told to them
in their Bible....and anything other than the union between a man and a woman runs counter (destroys) the sanctity of that union as revealed to them by their God.......
Why they can't grasp the simple truth of that is astounding.....
I'm certainly NOT trying to claim its right or wrong or a valid or invalid belief.....I'm just explaining the origin of that belief as its been explained to me by those believers....
its their bag, not mine.....why is that so fuckin' hard to get through their skulls ?
The question is,
Why is it that not a ONE of this board's Christians can explain in PLAIN ENGLISH how exactly gay marriage will destroy the sanctity of marriage?
which Zappa asks in msg. 281 and it’s the same question that has been asked over and over and over again.
Talking about "so fuckin' hard to get through their skulls" it appears you have the thick skull. If some folks want to believe marriage is sanctified, fine. Just because other people do not believe that does not change anything. In the Bible divorce is only permitted for a couple of reasons while society accepts a number of reasons. What difference does it make to the believer?
If you believe only a marriage between a man and a woman is sanctified, great. What difference does it make to you if others do not believe that? How does gay marriage de-sanctify your marriage? That is the question.
You wrote,
....anything other than the union between a man and a woman runs counter (destroys) the sanctity of that union as revealed to them by their God.......
Fine. It means
gay marriage isn't sanctified. It has nothing to do with your marriage. If you want to believe gay marriage isn't sanctified, great. No one is asking you to believe. No one is asking anything of you. That is the point.
So, again, why are you opposed to gay marriage? No one is asking those opposed to it to participate. No one is asking those opposed to it to sanctify it. No one is asking those opposed it it to believe it is sanctified. No one is asking anything of those who are opposed to it.
It's like opposing where ones neighbor is going on vacation. (It reminds me of that movie with Gene Wilder moving to Boise, Idaho.)
If someone said they're taking a vacation and going to spend a week at a bed and breakfast in Boise would the people who usually go to Hawaii or some South Sea Island consider that de-sanctifying vacations?
Opposition to gay marriage does not make any sense. It doesn't interfere in anyone's life and as for scriptural beliefs one is not obliged to interfere in the action of others nor are they held responsible so the question is,
Why is it that not a ONE of this board's Christians can explain in PLAIN ENGLISH how exactly gay marriage will destroy the sanctity of marriage?
Give it a shot.
