Don:

In response to your last question, no.

should this minority (homo sexuals) have the right to subvert the core beliefs of the religious?

There is no core belief in Xianity about sexuality. There are a number of passing comments here and there (selling unfaithful wives or stoning them to death, for example) which have long since been outgrown. Most of these are in the Olld Testament before God's New Deal.

A CORE belief would be something like "Let he among you who is without sin cast the first stone.". Or "Turn the other cheek." (Not to be humorous.)

The entire confusion between secular agreements and the rights of religion comes about because the fundamentals that make all men alike aren't granted primacy in the rulemaking. Everyone needs to live, eat, be free and pursue happiness. The FIRST contract of a society is how you are going to respect the individual (or not) in fundamental ways. Adding arbitrary moral contracts, such as are enjoyed by subgroups, cults and other clumps of people who decide to think left-handed thoughts only on Wednesday, or whatever.

If a religious believer cannot consent to honor the common contract that joins all people in basic mutual respect, then he should buzz off and be an authoritarian busybody somewhere else. If he believes that God only speaks through the decapitated neck-holes of white teenage girls, he is STILL a criminal if he starts developing a supply of same, and will hang as surely for it.

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