Comments on: Southern Baptists oppose health insurance for gays

By: CLS

CLS — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:10:26 +0000

Land even misstates the nature of marriage as he would define it. It is NOT defined by its sexual nature at all, only by the gender of the participants. Many marriages are entirely sexless. No one from the SBC goes around checking that married couples are actually having intercourse in order to be legally defined as “married.” A gay man could marry a lesbian, both could have sex with other partners and never have sex with one another, and they would still be legally married.

Normally a “ethicist” would be more careful with definitions. But that is harder to do if ones position is logically inconsistent and based on fallacies.

By: Christopher Waldrop

Christopher Waldrop — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:22:12 +0000

I’m trying to wrap my head around why the “bill would ‘discriminate’ against heterosexuals who are allowed to marry but decide that they don’t wish to do so.” Okay, so any company that offers benefits to married couples–whether heterosexual or same-sex–is technically discriminating against single people who choose not to marry. If the Southern Baptists have a problem with discrimination against singles then they should oppose any benefits for married couples.

By: wackadoodle

wackadoodle — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:11:30 +0000

“Most Southern Baptists believe that the only relationship that should be defined by its sexual nature and should have special benefits accrued to it is heterosexual marriage,” said Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Nov. 25.

What’s that thing they constantly accuse us of wanting when we want to be treated exactly the same as them? Starts with an S…

By: Edwin

Edwin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:09:18 +0000

Well I guess we could send all of our medical bills to Land and let him pay them for us. Since he thinks he deserves the reward for being a hetro trouble maker.

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:02:26 +0000

Easy. They claim Biblical infallibility but then give more weight to the passages they like. Which usually aren’t the ones that Jesus had anything to do with.