This is such a controversial subject and I hope I won't offend or have horrible comments, but here it goes: I think so many people think that LDS people hate gay people and that is just not so. I know and love several people who live a same sex life style. Then why do I vote in favor of the family which may hurt these people I love? It is because it is a bigger issue than what it seems on the surface. I wish we could just live and let live, but if i didn't vote in favor of family and (for example) California prop 8 was passed then it would change how my church and other churches and any religious organization, adoption agencies, hospitals like St. Jude's, would have to govern themsleves. I don't think that is fair. WE have the right to govern ourselves as we choose just like you do. I don't know if it is just the way the way prop 8 was written or what, but why does granting one groups freedom mean taking away another groups freedom? Is there not a way to accommodate both?
Anyways, I found this article about religious freedom (the right to believe or not to believe and to act or not to act according to one's personal belief system)
and I thought I would share it, click for
source.
"Challenges to religious freedom are emerging from many sources. Emerging advocacy for gay rights threatens to abridge religious freedom in a number of ways. Changes in health care threaten the rights of those who hold certain moral convictions about human life. These and other developments are producing conflict and beginning to impose on religious organizations and people of conscience. They are threatening, for instance, to restrict how religious organizations can manage their employment and their property. They are bringing about the coercion of religiously-affiliated universities, schools and social-service entities. They are also resulting in reprimands to individuals who act in line with their principles — from health practitioners and other professionals to parents. In these and in many other circumstances, we see how religious freedom and freedom of conscience are being subtly but steadily eroded. And of equal concern, the legal provisions emerging to safeguard these freedoms are often shallow — protecting these liberties only in the narrowest sense. In many aspects of public life, religious freedom and freedom of conscience are being drawn into conflicts that may suppress them."
The article points out how we must be civil to each other, even those whose views may differ from ours. It talks about how we need debate, but it must be in a civilized matter, No yelling or insulting, but honest issues, honest concerns. It seems so many debates I have seen end up in threats and insults and it does credit to no one and drives me insane.
Anyway, for better or for worse, this is what is one my mind today.
Any mean troll comments will be deleted by the way.
