Christianity and gay marriage

[auburntiger]

Southern Evangelical Christian; biblically against, legally for.

In a nutshell, every citizen has the same legal rights as everyone else. Keep a strong separation of church and state, protecting the churches who disagree with same sex marriage from state and federal lawsuits.

To expound a bit on the second part of that, churches typically set up a list of core beliefs, each one of them adhering to a range of a liberal to literal interpretation of scripture.  Just as an aside, I attend one that does a great job at taking the Word contextually - referencing to the Hebrew and Greek of the Old and New Testaments, respectively. Regarding the issue of marriage, the state shouldn't interfere with whatever the church decides in its interpretation of scripture on sin.

The problem the Right has with it is the fear of being forced to recognize and be "OK" with something they honestly believe is a sin.

The problem the Left has with opposing this, I believe, is from a legal perspective entirely.

Just an observation here...I hear so many arguments of how gay marriage is destroying the sanctity of marriage. Well, look no further than in the "Church of America" and you will find hat the divorce rate is the same as that outside the church.

DIVORCE is what's destroying families and the sanctity of marriage. The Bible is very clear on how God hates divorce.