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View Poll Results: To what extent should gay marriage be allowed (if at all)? | ||||||
All religious institutions should unquestionably conform with it (probably not the best idea) | 3 | 20.00% | ||||
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Only institutions who are okay with the idea | 10 | 66.67% | ||||
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Civil partnership’s fine. Leave the sacred union for the opposite sex | 1 | 6.67% | ||||
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Undecided/mixed/other (please specify) | 1 | 6.67% | ||||
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19-10-2021, 08:47 PM | #26 | |||
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This is where the real struggle lays in 2021 for the lgbtq. |
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19-10-2021, 08:48 PM | #27 | |||
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19-10-2021, 08:50 PM | #28 | |||
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19-10-2021, 09:16 PM | #29 | ||
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20-10-2021, 08:36 AM | #30 | ||
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I’m not old enough to have friends with adult kids quite yet (in fact most of my friends with kids are still in the toddler/little kid phase whereas mine are 12 and 9) however, one of my best friends is gay, told his family at 18, then 5 years later out of the blue his older brother rocked up to a family gathering with a boyfriend. They’re now both married (to men). |
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20-10-2021, 08:42 AM | #31 | ||
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I understand that and actually I think you’re underestimating how low the acceptance in in many Christian church communities in the UK - and definitely the US. I think in the UK they’re less vocal about it, I had a “parent friend” (the friends you have while your kids are little and don’t keep in contact with after that) who was heavily involved in the church (evangelical, I think) and from everything I knew about her I’d have assumed her views on homosexuality were moderate. Until the conversation actually came up - and she declared that while she’d be friends with gay people, she would have to tell them they’re not going to heaven, and that they should “stop”. Also that she’d be “utterly devastated” if one of her kids was gay. I’ve since realised it’s a very common attitude in British churches, it’s just not announced as loudly. And my hypothetical was in a world where I’m a mystical overlord who can shape reality at will, and that I’d ideally remove religion from all equations entirely… it’s not intended to be a pragmatic suggestion for the real world. |
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20-10-2021, 08:56 AM | #32 | |||
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In my home town, the only gay in the village plays the organ every sunday at our local protestant church.
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20-10-2021, 08:57 AM | #33 | |||
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i think as long as people have a legal path to get the marital status they want, then the availability in each religious institution is a different thing all together. People can't get married in the catholic church for a multitude of reasons even although they are legally entitled, it's not confined to same sex or anything else
What I can't reconcile is wanting to be part of a religious institution that discriminates for whatever reason specifically against "you" I just wouldn't want to be associated with it if it were me |
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20-10-2021, 10:08 AM | #34 | ||
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Should always be 'allowed' and always should have been, its mental to me that it was not. But I am not comfortable with forcing religious institutions to do it if they disagree. But I dont really understand why they would disagree. Yet, I am not religious so maybe wouldnt understand.
Fencesitting on the whole thing. Really. Aslong as there are many places that do do it..I dont see why we should force all to do it. Yet cannot understand the refusals personally. Thats complicated as **** really.
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20-10-2021, 10:10 AM | #35 | |||
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20-10-2021, 12:22 PM | #36 | |||
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20-10-2021, 12:24 PM | #37 | |||
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20-10-2021, 12:59 PM | #38 | ||
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That doesn’t really matter if we’re talking about snapping all organised religion out of existence? Again, I’m not saying this is something that can actually happen, just a hypothetical. |
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20-10-2021, 01:38 PM | #39 | |||
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And I’m saying that traditional world religions (you might want to look up Buddhism and ATR) that aren’t generally associated with the West aren’t intrinsically homophobic. They aren’t now and never were, not in their pure form. Should those religions be wiped out as well?
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21-10-2021, 03:50 PM | #40 | ||
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The world would be a greater place without religion. I’ll agree that not all religions are discriminative and have idiotic followers who use their religion as a guise for their ignorant views but it should not have the power it has.
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21-10-2021, 03:52 PM | #41 | |||
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Yep, it's all about control with *most* of those religions, that and money making
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