Vermont Legalizes Gay Marriage

[Lemur]

Unless my memory is horribly flawed, God stopped Abraham from sacrificing Isaas

Who's "Issas"? God commanded Abraham to sacrifice Issac in the first place. This has implications which you don't seem to have thought through.

All religions claim to know the will of God to varying degrees.

"Varying degrees" has replaced "some." I think your first version was more apt.

Based on thousands of years of Catholic teaching, I don't think it's overly presumption for a believing Catholic to state that God does not approve of homosexual unions.

Based on at least a hundred years of documented gay, philandering and/or pedophile clergy, I don't quite understand where the Church is coming from on this issue. But it's not my church, so I'll walk away quietly.

I'm not a bible scholar, nor do I want to carry on a biblical debate

But you'll toss some verses out if you think they'll prove your point. Nice. Try this one on for size:

Galatians 3:18: "There is neither Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus."

There are plenty more where that came from. Your selective reading of the Bible is typical of those on the far rightwing. Quote the book when it reinforces your viewpoint, ignore the weird hippie stuff.

I suppose we should spin this off into its own thread.

Did anybody watch those videos I posted? They're hilarious.

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Why should Americans of different persuasions be kept under the yoke of the personal religious ideologies of other Americans?

As I said, and Xiahou ignored:

This is not a country ruled by clergy, thank God, and this is not a nation founded on Catholicism. Or Presbyterianism. Or Baptism or Seventh Day Adventism or Mormonism or Pentecostalism or the Anglican Union or Lutheranism or Methodism. This is a nation of democracy and laws. If you have a case to make against Vermont, please feel free to make it.

Unfortunately, Xiahou only responds to the parts of an argument that are congruent with his methodology; seize upon a detail that you believe you can disprove, ignore everything else, no matter if the detail is irrelevant to the overall thread or whether you're ignoring salient points. Then doggedly hang on to the point you think you can win, ignore everything else, and concede nothing, ever.

Charming stuff, really.