The only hope in this direction seems to be to get another 400,000+ voters to change their individual minds. Attacking them as a group by attacking their church would be a mistake, in my opinion.
I still think a better way to go would be to take steps to reframe things in ways their religion does not argue against. Keep the discussion away from marriage & homosexuality, focus on ways to obtain the same legal & tax benefits.
I think the approach to take would be to agree that marriage is defined in the bible and as a religious belief should fall under the seperation of church and state. That is it should have no legal weight in terms of health benefits or any other social concern that is outside the realm of any individual religion. We don't discriminate between marriages of the christian, jewish, muslim, or any other faith and still give them all the same legal advantage. Let's make civil unions or whatever name you want to give it the legal status of any citizen who wants to commit to any other citizen and let marriage stay just a title of our individual faith.
nicole_powers
NEWSWIRE
I'm lost
NOV 17, 2008 02:06 PM