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In article <74585@hydra.gatech.EDU> rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
>The Christian (Biblical) position is that homosexuality is not right,
>but neither are murder, robbery, theft, and adultery.
	Its also the Biblical position that the non-belief in God is wrong,
yet we've lived with no problem for more than 200 years with a constitutionally
garanteed freedom of religion.

>  The position
>taken by these latest referendums call for the position to be understood
>that we (which is more than just Christians or RR Christians) don't
>want to be told that homosexuality is going to be pushed in our face.
>To my knowledge the move is not to keep a homosexual from THINKING it is 
>right, but to say at a government level that homosexuality is not to be
>supported or promoted as A OK.
  That depends on what you mean by "supported and promoted". If you mean that
heterosexuality should be promoted instead, then you are wrong. If you mean
that no type of sexuality should be promoted by the government then you are
right. As I understand it, the referendums in question said #1 not #2.
  The thing to avoid is for business to be able to take action against
someone _because_ they are gay -- Not because they are abnoxiously vocal about
the fact, but merely because they are gay.

>  (That is if one wants to do it, then
>don't ask me, my government, or my money to support it.  There is plenty
>of art that is wrongly supported by the National Endowment for the Arts 
>department with my tax dollars that both attack my religious beliefs and 
>my morals.)

   The national endowment for the arts was established so that American art
would make it through the recession. Whether or not theres still a need for
it to exist at all is questionable, but if it continues to exist, then the
government should have little or no say in what kinds of art it supports:
The art of our culture means _all_ the art.

>>imposition says, "Gay is none of your busniness therefore whether you
>>personally like it or not, you will not stop me from doing it nor hinder me
>If it is pushed upon my beliefs and I can't reject it, you are wrong.
>Christian for-profit radio stations in California cannot deny a job
>to one because one is homosexual nor can they fire one who is an activist
>for their position even while on the job.
  You may reject it on a personal level if you want to. (Frankly, I think its
kind of sick.) However, just as with freedom of religion, you don't (or at
least shouldn't) have the right to reject it on a professional or governmental
level.



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