LGBT civil rights leader in Arkansas

Every state and I think there are about six of them, did not pass gay marriage because the people wanted it. They passed it through the legislature. That means the politicians made the law and didn’t even put it on the ballot for the people to vote on. Every where it’s been put on the ballot, it gets voted down. In California the people voted against it twice and still the LGBT want it passed regardless. Going against the majority of the people is wrong, and yes that means you are trying to push your belief on us. The gay community is very very small but because they get so much money from Hollywood they think they rule. The population cannot grow if everyone was gay and it’s just morally wrong.

Civil marriage is the legal concept of marriage as a governmental institution irrespective of religious affiliation, in accordance with marriage laws of the jurisdiction.

Sir, the definition of a bigot is anyone intolerant of an opinion but their own. Reading your posts would place well within the definition of the word.

Bigots. Every time one of you mentions God, (in all caps, naturally) it is in the context of placing your religious precepts into the rules of governance. The USA is not a theocracy, or at least the Constitution says it ought not to be. If your church doesn't recognize gay marriage, fine. If my government doesn't recognize my child's fundamental right to enter into a legal marriage with her partner, then the government is engaging in institutionalized bigotry. Those who back this restriction are bigots. Who says she can’t have a child? Lesbians have babies all the time. (Don’t lecture me on mechanics; I know) Because of my medical circumstances, I can’t make a baby either. Yet, I can get married. And Have my spouse listed as next of kin. I’m done here. But whenever I get the chance to identify bigotry where it lives and breathes, I intend to call the intolerant, compassion and love-challenged people who defend anti-LGBT legislation what they are- bigots.

I say to the entire gay, transgender, lesbian, transsexual and everyone else that thinks this is a human rights issue. It is not. Ending slavery for blacks was a human rights issue. Poking someone in the but thinking they can make babies is not. Are these people being killed in the street? Are these people not making it big in Hollywood? Put all these people in California and go back in 50 years and see if they haven’t all died off. They can’t make babies, what part of that do people not understand. Why can’t they just be happy living their life or civil unions? There are about 320 million people in the US, only about 700 hundred thousand are gay or whatever. So what do they think they need to change all the laws for them? Marriage for most is religious or expressing your faith and you say your vows before GOD. If you don’t think the LEFT has not been behind this for decades, your crazy. All you have to do is look at San Francisco and see what’s going on there. People walking around naked for kids to see and everyone thinking they need medical pot. If GOD had created Adam and Steve, we all would not be here today. I’m not a bigot; but I am entitled to my opinion. I don’t hate anyone, but just because I don’t agree with them I’m called a bigot. All you have to do is look around and see the decline of the American family and values.

Marriage is a common right. This means that people may freely get married without asking the government permission to do so. Marriage is not a privilege. Common rights are given by God. God created marriage, God instituted marriage; no human government instituted marriage. So who are we to change what God created?

Food restrictions were changed in the New Testament. So in other words, if anyone does not agree with your opinion they are a bigot. Even if they do nothing to a gay person, simply that they have the belief that homosexuality is a sin is enough for you to label them. This is exactly the intolerance that is predominate in the rhetoric of the LGBT.

Yes, that is a religious justification for a bigoted opinion. I stress the word “opinion,” because cherry-picking the Bible to reinforce bigotry is all too common. That said, it’s no different if someone considers eaters of shellfish to have committed an abomination before the Lord. But that’s very seldom the case, right? Because we know and love shrimp eaters. Shrimp eaters are nice people who just happen to eat shrimp. And we **choose** to overlook the Bible’s prohibition of eating shrimp. Most of us even refuse to accept another abomination that is clearly acceptable in the bible: slavery. This is personal. When your gay kid –born, not raised that way- attempts suicide because of the torment suffered at the hands of peers who were raised –not born- to perceive my child’s very nature as sinful, then get back to me about who and what is bigoted.

So if I believe that homosexuality is a sin, does that make me a bigot? I did not make a single remark about gay rights, only about one's religious beliefs.

Yes, ender, if you are anti-gay rights you are a bigot. Even if your grounds are religious, you are a bigot. Just like those who railed against race-mixing as anti-Christian, those who wish to deny human rights to gay people on religious grounds are bigots.