Ok, I was just looking through the religion forum and found this thread. Needless to say, it has caught my eye (mainly because I myself am a homosexual). I have read the arguments above and I would have to agree 110% with John. Christianity is but one very popular religion. A religion against homosexuality, or so it seems. I find it funny that many christians are so very much against same-sex relationships and marrage whenever their "Lord and Savior" never said one word against homosexuality. All through the Bible, Jesus Christ himself never said one word for or against homosexuality. So, if Christ is the highest authority in the Bible - why "follow" anyone else? If Christ did not mention it, but some "mortal" did, should we follow the mortal saying that we should be against homosexuality while his master said "love your neighbor as yourself"?

Moving on - as John made well to note, this is a democracy, not a theocracy. Religion does not rule the justice system or the laws which are made. Also, I would like to point out that a single person doesn't run the nation for a good reason. I have much more faith in the Supreme Court then I do in either of the other two branches. People were chanting in the news that The Courts don't make the rules, the people do. Under normal circumstances I would agree, but not whenever the rights of others are being threatened. That's why we have courts my friends, to protect the rights of the minority and the individual from the masses. The courts protect individual freedom, and such is the case here. Homosexual marrage is not that huge of a deal, other than gaining a certain civil right promised to the majority and not to this specifc minority. Not granting the gay community this would be showing favoritism, and that would be going against the sentence "all men are created equal". If all men are created equal, then ALL men should have the same rights, this includes marrage. It's very simple - to deny this simple civil right would be going against everything that the founding fathers stood for. Plain and simple.



...and one last thing. The person who said that Christians are given much more Hell than the homosexual community might want to rethink that sentence. I have never heard anything more idiotic in my entire life.