Frank K Wrote: One of the principle arguments used by proponents of Proposition 8 in California was that marriage is a "sacred institution" between a man and a woman. So if we were to accept this "sacred" argument, how would the various churches that heavily campaigned for the ban on gay marriage on sacred grounds view marriages between two athiests (man and woman)? How could a marriage between two non-believers be considered "sacred" under the church doctrine? If those same churches got together and sponsored a measure similar to proposition 8 but targeted athiests instead of gays, might it pass? Athiests are a minority in California. Would a marriage of an athiest man and athiest woman be more "sacred" than a marriage of two Christian lesbian women? As the American Athiests pointed out, the California voters and the California Supreme Court have set a dangerous precident in allowing the majority (mostly Christians) to remove the civil rights of a minority based solely on Biblical Christian beliefs. What's next? Where does it all stop?
There is a separation of church and state in this country. So, in order to have any real argument against allowing gay marriage, you need to find something more than a religious one. Where in the Bible does it say two atheists getting married is an abomination? And how do you know that two women laying with each other is just as bad as two men if the Bible doesn't state that? Is premarital sex ok? There is a lot of that in the Bible and, as I recall, there is no mention that sex before marriage is wrong, just having children out of wedlock is frowned upon.
MrWonder Wrote: Homosexuals who are true to their homosexuality cannot produce children of any kind. They have to depend on heterosexuality to propagate the species.