No, you ignore important bits and make silly nonsense assertions that don't even make sense with the few things you have taken out of context.
I have been consistent, and will continue to be consistent.
Yes, you continue to be consistently absurd and misuse the word "dogma" as emotive hyperbole. You continue to consistently show how stubborn and bull headed you can be, when challenged with your own words. And you continue to consistently show your ass and become more and more immature as the thread progresses. You're 'consistent' alright, I'll give you that one, Dumo!
I take the threads where you have clearly stated your Christianity to be truth. You have dogma.
I once stated I was a Christian in an argument with someone else who claimed they were a Christian, and I did so for sake of argument. I've explained this, but you want to run around like a little retarded kid, acting like I didn't give an explanation, or you don't accept the explanation. I can't do anything about what you believe or your state of mental retardation. I know I am not a Christian, and if I AM a Christian and lying about not being one, then I am condemning myself to eternal damnation in denying my Christianity. So if I AM a Christian, I am a really stupid one.
It does say it is a sin, in fact it says it is an abomination. It is direct dogma.
No, it's not "direct dogma" at all, and you actually made a compelling argument for that in another thread. You cited the fact that Jesus Christ (the man for whom Christianity is NAMED), never spoke specifically against homosexuality. We can pour through pages of argument from you, where the exact OPPOSITE is being claimed, that homosexuality doesn't even conflict with Christianity, much less violate the dogma.
Keeping the Sabbath holy is "direct dogma" and if Congress were trying to pass a law that we all must attend church and pray on Sunday, it would be an attempt to legislate dogma. That isn't what is being discussed.
I thought you were through with this nonsense, when we brought up the threads where you proclaimed your wholehearted Christianity. You have dogma.
Why has your argument now been reduced to throwing up old threads pertaining to a personal matter regarding myself? Whether I am a Christian or not, is really beside the point here, isn't it? For the sake of argument (again) let's presume I AM a Christian as you claim.... Am I supposed to sacrifice my Constitutional right to petition for a redress of my grievances? Am I supposed to be disallowed to vote? Do I not have the right to free speech because you think I am a Christian? Maybe we should round up all "Christians" and shoot them in the head, since they obviously don't deserve to have the same rights as you, Dumo? Just please explain to me what my religious faith has to do with this conversation in any way? Even if it is my faith and I do have dogma, are you trying to deny my constitutional rights because you think my viewpoint is "dogma" when it's not?
No, the constitution proscribes theocracy, the attempt to assert it through legislation doesn't hold water.
No one is establishing religion by opposing gay marriage, you have not made the connection, you can't even establish such a position amounts to religious dogma! It is a viewpoint based on
morality, and we have established essentially
EVERY law on the basis of our morality. To make the absurd claim that we can't do this or it amounts to legislating "dogma" is overblown hyperbole and a willing desire to outright deny people their god-given constitutional right to express their opinions politically. You're not a Libertarian at all, you are an Authoritarian! Your opinion and viewpoint is the only one with merit, and the only one which can be considered by the rest of society, because you say so!
But you do care, you've argued against it now for two threads worth of nonsense.
I've argued against redefining "marriage" to suit our whims and desires, I think it's a very dangerous precedent to set. We can see the relative dangers just in your redefining "dogma" to make your case! If we can redefine "marriage" and "dogma" then we can just as easily redefine "consent" and "victim" as well as "liberty" and "freedom!"
I believe that you are lying here, (not that you don't belong to a church I can believe that, but I believe that you are and always will be a Christian) a form of Christian Taquiya, one that isn't supported by the Bible I might add. I base that on those threads here that don't just suggest you are Christian, they flat out state it with heavy conviction.
Again, I don't give a flying fuck what you believe, it has nothing to do with the debate or the subject at hand. I don't know of too many Christians who believe you can denounce your Christian faith and still get into heaven, so if I am really a Christian, I am destined for eternity in hell because of my denial of being Christian. But really, what difference does it make? Is my "Christian" viewpoint somehow irrelevant in the arena of political discourse? I have the freedom to believe whatever I want to believe, and to express my opinion and viewpoints freely regarding legislation or any damn thing else I want to talk about in America, and you don't have the right to deny me that right!
Then why do you seek disagreement where we agree? This is a good solution, one which I have stated should be done for the decade we have known each other and one which you've recently just started promoting... We should work towards it rather than have you telling me anything about "defining marriage"... Let's work to get government out of marriage, all marriage including yours.
Where we disagree, is your support for Gay Marriage. My solution recognizes BOTH sides of the issue, respects the religious viewpoints as well as the secular viewpoints, and seeks a compromise between the two. You don't respect the religious viewpoints, you are okay with the solution in so far as it gives you what you want, but best I can tell, the opposition seems to be in giving religious people what they want. You had rather keep the argument perpetuated, keep the issue on the table, so you can pound away at religion and those who have religious faith. To you, and others like you, it is far more important to continue your little crusade against religion, than to solve the problems for millions of gay couples out there.
No, you aren't. From your argument here one can reasonably see that you don't work towards this solution at all, it is convenient to say it, but then argue against it at every turn. You use it as a wedge and then tell people that you and others who think like you will pass an amendment to make your attempt at theocracy legal if they don't do what you want. The dichotomy is yours, you must resolve that within yourself. If you want this solution, let's work towards it.
I've not used anything as a wedge, or backed away from my solution at all. I don't know where you get that... This conversation is about legalizing Gay Marriage, which I am opposed to. That isn't "working toward" my solution, that is ignoring my solution and continuing to wage your war on religion.
And for your information, if 3/4 of the states vote and ratify an amendment, we can make any goddamn thing we want a part of the Constitution, including making America a Christian Theocracy, if we so choose! The People have the power to render the entire Constitution null and void and call for a constitutional convention, where they could write anything they so desire in the Constitution. You need to take a refresher course on civics, Dumo!
The solution you supposedly propose has my support, I like it, I have promoted it for a much longer time than you have. I've worked towards getting the idea to as many religious conservatives as possible so that they may see the wisdom and carry that torch rather than one that attempts to supersede the 1st Amendment and legislate their dogma. I was thrilled when I first thought that you had come around, but then pages of nonsense about the definition of marriage (which we both supposedly agree shouldn't be in the government's purview) just bogs it all down. It took me a bit before I realized that your actual solution is the supposed constitutional amendment that would allow you to impose theocracy based in your religion on us and that your supposed proposed solution was just chaff.
You're not supporting MY solution here! You are supporting Gay Marriage, and arguing against MY solution! You continue to do so by misusing terminology, here you misused "theocracy" again, which simply is dishonest and unsupportable as an argument. It's one absurdity stacked on top of another with you, in an attempt to continue the argument FOR GAY MARRIAGE! Stop trying to pretend you are FOR something else, you are not! You've proven that!