If you don't want to believe me or other posters here, check out the links below that document how it's groups of Christians who are fighting to deny gay people their civil rights. I could paste many more links; I find about 10 times this number in just one, hastily conducted search. Actually, one has only to pick up a newspaper. Where I live there are two or three articles a week that discuss Christian efforts to stop gay people from enjoying basic civil rights. What stands out the most in the articles is the assumption that the Christians make that they ought to be able to legislate their moral beliefs. I am just clueless as to where this hateful and hideoously arrogant idea comes from. Again, what is so wrong with peacefully practicing one's religion in private while leaving others alone? http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A35250-2001Jul22 http://www.ilga.org/Current%20activities/Press%20releases/vatican_condemns_human_rights_fo.htm http://www.frc.org/ie/important/important0401c.html http://www.gospelcom.net/faithfacts/cul_gay.html http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/queerlaw-edit/msg03708.html http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/queerlaw-edit/msg03708.html http://juandejesus.50megs.com/gayissues.html http://www.americas.org/news/nir/20010513_measure_backs_same_sex_rights.asp http://uspolitics.about.com/library/weekly/aa071001a.htm http://www.usatoday.com/news/vote2000/me/main.htm http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:pisVts-6hjY:www.miami.com/c/community/people/gay_and_lesbian/locdocs/094146.htm+gay+rights+christians&hl=en http://nl11.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_hidethis=yes&p_product=UW&p_theme=uw&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=500&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=("19980727004417")&p_perpage=25&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no http://cultureandfamily.org/report/2001-07-25/l_md.shtml http://www.biblestudygames.com/biblestudies/gay.htm http://www.ewm.org/essay_respondi.htm http://www.usaradio.com/pov/articles/art1597.fcr.html http://www.liberty.edu/chancellor/nlj/March99/politics4.htm http://www.publiceye.org/equality/x-gay/X-Gay-05.htm http://www.ifas.org/fw/9408/agenda.html http://www.jeremiahproject.com/TrashingAmerica/homosexrights2.html |