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Originally Posted by Deanjam

His scripture says homosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of God, I didn't say he said it. Indeed, if he goes off the bible scripture then he has no reason to oppose same sex marriage as there is nothing in there that opposes it.

My problem is that he holds to a homophobic belief - that gay people are not entitled to the same right of marriage as straight people - and yet claims to have no problem with gays. That is hypocrital. He's entitled to not believe gays should marry all he wants, just don't pretend this comes from anywhere but homophobia.

And the New Testament says that God sent Jesus to die for our sins so our sins would be forgiven. Basically, because the Old Testament made so many things sins, they had to write a new scripture that absolved people from them.

Its may not be from personal homophobia, its from religious dogma, there are other groups within society who are also not allowed to marry, for example certain groups of relatives while being able to marry legally in a civil ceremony cant marry within certain religions, some religions believe you marry for life therefore divorcees cant remarry.

Whilst its true he may hold those beliefs personally, he may also hold the belief that same sex marriages should be allowed, there are priests and minsiters etc who hold such beliefs privately but cant express them publicly. He has at the moment hid his own beliefs behind the "not allowed in scriptures argument"