Basing your moral beliefs on the Bible is not in itself neither better nor worse than basing it on any other source, until proven otherwise. Ignoring an opinion only because it come from a Christian is ridicolous, but if you disagree with an opinion for any other reason doesn't automatically mean that you disagree with everything that person says. Things like this always goes both ways.
Your pastor have some good points and the one he made about 'moral discrimination' being neccessary for a orderly society is completely correct, otherwise laws wouldn't exist, but I think he misses some VERY important points; can homosexuality be considered so wrong that gays shouldn't be allowed to marry? Does 'gay marrige' disrupt the society in such a way that it shouldn't be legal?
There are good reasons we don't allow other 'moral wrongs' such as murder, theft, rape and phaedophilia, but are there equally good reasons to a ban on 'gay marriages'? Here the opinions a divided, both here on IW and in the real world, so the discussion continues.
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