When has it become bad to be a Christian?

[Stu Pidasso]

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Incorrect. Our society considers the traditional family to consist of father, mother, children. Ideals are for philosophers and priests.


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Fine, marriage is an institution designed to promote the traditional family.

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Marriage is not an institution. Marriage is a contract describing a government-recognized relationship. God I hate that "marriage is an institution" crap.


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in·sti·tu·tion, n. A custom, practice, relationship, or behavioral pattern of importance in the life of a community or society: the institutions of marriage and the family. dictionary.com


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Do you also think we shouldn't allow muslims or jews or buddhists to marry in the united states, because their family values are different than yours?

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No, I never said that. In our society muslim men can take only one wife at a time however.

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How about single parents? Divorcees?

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Tolerated, not promoted.

Society encourages and promotes the tradition family structure. It tolerates other family structures such as gay unions, single parents, etc. Some family structures it forbids, such as polygamy and polyandry.

Stu

[sillyarms]

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Why exactly would you say that Govt has no justification for changing something? The whole purpose of government is to define and refine public policy for society. If society demands a change (and I am not getting into whether society is demanding this change -- at least not yet) then should the government not respond?

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The whole purpose of government is to protect individuals rights, not to decide what is moral. If society demands change let society take care of it. It is not the place of government.

silly