Bigots On The Retreat In America

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29508566

Progress comes very slowly at times but its welcome all the same.

[andy-hughes]

"... struck down in the lower courts ..."

What a wonderfully Old-Testament ring that has about it!

Hooray for tolerance, everywhere!

[mikey4444]

Hooray indeed Andy !

[Zeuhl]

How many women can a lesbian in Utah marry?

[mikey4444]

There plenty of them in my village and they all wear boiler suits !

[Zeuhl]

^
must look like a Pete Townsend Fan Convention

[naomi24]

Zeuhl, only one. Mormons did away with polygamy years ago. ;o)

[mikey4444]

Eh...no they didn't Naomi ! At least not all of them did :::

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism_and_polygamy#Remnants_within_sects

Polygamy still alive and kicking in the USA !

[BlackadderV]

I find it shocking that those who stick to a traditional viewpoint, no matter what the topic, which may have lasted for millennia, are suddenly labelled bigots because it does not conform to the lastest fashionable idea.

[mikey4444]

BlackadderV....here is a clue for you, in understanding the word bigot ::

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot

Heres another ::

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigotry

[Baldric]

Mikey, I checked your first link out, that could be you on some subjects!

[Baldric]

I've now checked your second link, it is you!

[Graham-W]

Ideas that were, only 50 years ago, totally acceptable are now frowned upon and lead to cries of bigotry.
The times they are a changin'.

[BlackadderV]

Note the words in both your references: "Strongly, and Unfairly". I categorically deny them to my appellation. What you may label 'strong views' were nothing more than par for the course at one time. I have never been a bigot, choosing to shun those situations and people with whom I feel uncomfortable, and, more particularly, I have NEVER considered myself to be unfair to anyone.

[mikey4444]

These people in America are against same sex marriage, just because it offends their narrow religious beliefs. If their friends and neighbours want to enter same-sex marriages, it doesn't impinge on their own beliefs at all, nor their way of life. To be frank, it is none of their business.

But because they hold certain religious beliefs, they make it their concern to be offended and thus interfere in other people business. They are intolerant of others way of life, and intolerance is a key component of bigotry. To repeat, it is none of their business.

The world will not stop turning because two men or two women love each other and want to live together. Nobody has the right to interfere with that. But because they bigots, they maintain the right to interfere, and that is what is wrong. All this is just common sense surely ?

[naomi24]

Mikey, polygamy may well be 'alive and kicking' in the USA, as it is here, but polygamists are excommunicated by the Mormon church. Some polygamists might consider themselves Mormons, but the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints disagrees with them.

http://www.mormon.org.uk/faq/practice-of-polygamy