When Ireland, an overwhelmingly Catholic country, can look past their religious beliefs and vote to legalize same-sex marriage, they’ve proven to be way more mature than the United States has ever been.
Especially when Catholicism is in the Irish constitution… while the U.S. Construction clearly dictates that religion has no place in government
Maybe it’s because religion isn’t the actual problem
It’s a…very big factor. Like, incredibly huge. I’ve never heard a single proper argument against gay marriage from the politicians and citizens in this country that professes separation of church and state that didn’t have to do with religion?
The thing I’m trying to say here is that religion itself isn’t the problem. It’s the people.
I am catholic, so are my sisters and a lot of people I know that are not against gay marriage.
I have talked to a priest who says we shouldn’t act the way some/a lot of people do against gay people, that we should embrace them, take them in. (And he never said any word about “converting” them or “curing” them)
Religion is usually never the problem in this or other issues. People misinterpreting the scripts and being extremists are usually the problem.
Our religion says God is love and is not capable of hate and some people somehow think He “hates” gay people? It makes me so angry. And honestly I can’t even blame other people for hating the religion when some of our people represent it wrong.