The homosexuals want their lifestyle accepted by Christianity or Islam, regardless of the firmly held beliefs of the followers of these religions.


You are mistaken, Ake. They want civil rights to marry, regardless of what churches say or do not say.

The big difference is that civil rights -- and granting them to others -- is a concomitant of citizenship.

Being a Xian or Muslim or Jane or Jew is entirely voluntary. In this country, as well as in the UK, no matter which of these sects or groups you belong to, you are obliged to respect the core set of civic freedoms of others. The firmly held beliefs of Christians, for example, are respected as long as they do not leak into the commons in such a way as infringing on the more basic civic rights of others.

We lived through all this in the Sixties; the Klan had religious beliefs about the superiority of races, for example. We fought through it in the 40's where religious justification was used to promote eugenics and racial extremism.

It doesn't work and it should be clearly and deliberately eradicated as a flawed cognitive process; it is not a belief, it's a neurosis.

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