The difference between celebrating and killing

[gothelittle]

I was perusing a link I'd bookmarked because it made an excellent argument about gay marriage in the context of no-fault divorce and welfare for unwed mothers. It's really very well written, and can be found here:

http://www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/005244.html

What got me, though, this time, was one of the comments:

"But gay's should be allowed

Comments

[deckardcanine]

What a twisted mind to apply an irrelevant, six-year-old case to this for what sounds like a sick joke.

[vesta_venus]

And the new bumper sticker wisdom floating around Facebook "If that fetus you were trying to save turned out to be gay, would you still try to save it?"

Again, some how supposedly hating gay people trumps life.

[headnoises]

Funny: Same folks probably wouldn't understand why I'd say "no" to the question of killing Baby Hitler....

[vesta_venus]

Given how he was treated as a child, I would answer the dumb question about going back in time and killing Hitler or aborting him with going back in time and preventing him being abused as a child to see if that changed anything.

[headnoises]

Why go small? Head back and smack heads together until they don't tax Germany to bits....

Probably still have a massive anti-Jewish blow up in a few decades after that, maybe in the USSR, but "it will happen eventually" is no reason to not fight.

compromises

[ilion7]

"We will never be able to have a dialogue, never mind a compromise, as long as the Other Side ..."

Any compromise between 'true' and 'false' must necessarily yield 'false'. Any compromise between 'right' and 'wrong' must necessarily yield 'wrong'.

Re: compromises

[gothelittle]

Agreed. However, in a free society, it is possible to adopt a lassez-faire compromise between two groups who believe that the other is wrong. After all, you don't find Mormons forcing Catholics to perform their marriages, or TEA Party groups suing the Socialist Party for the 'right' to rent their facilities for a conservative rally.

Very rare indeed is the Christian group that is unwilling to refrain from making laws to prohibit consensual sexual behavior between adults in private, and I have not yet met the one that will condone any kind of violence against people who engage in homosexuality. It's the gay activists who are pushing the issue, refusing to even permit Christians to lawfully disagree with the 'rightness' and 'pureness' of homosexual sex.

Of course

[ilion7]

Of course; yet, that "live and let live" outlook is mostly, and increasingly, one-sided.