c.s. lewis

[tinpra]

though neither of these were picked up for fun, i just finished reading "Same Sex Partnerships?" by John RW Stott, and i started Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis yesterday while waiting for the doctor

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[nikita31j7.livejournal.com]

Not to be combative, but what rights are they taking back? The Civil Rights movement dispelled (in theory) racial segregation; allowing all people to attend whichever school, sit in any bus seat, and drink from any water fountain they wanted. None of that has ever been denied homosexuals. I don't see a parallel at all.

[tinpra.livejournal.com]

All of this with my disclaimer that I am not for gay rights:

Well I guess you can take the issue I'm arguing/discussing now on another message board as an example: gay marriage. All human beings have the right to join themselves together, assuming that they are "in their right minds" and/or aren't being coerced. But, when I say that, I really mean that all men have the right to join together with any woman of their choice, and all women have the right to join together with any man of their choice barring the "right mind" and coercion thing. A male/female couple also has the biological right to have a child, or to adopt if they don't want to or can't get pregnant.

Gay couples, for the most part I think, do not have the right to marry and/or adopt (although I'm a lot sketchier on the adoption side). Why? Because marriage is popularly a union of a man and a woman. Except that from a homosexual perspective marriage is simply a union. End stop. Adoption is something that is done by people who can be good parents, no matter the gender(s) of the person and/or couple.

In that way homosexuals see themselves as being denied their basic rights as human beings. Now being neither homosexual nor for gay rights, I'm sure someone else could explain it better but that's how I understand it.

[tinpra.livejournal.com]

This was a really good conversation, ladies. It's 4 years later and I'm enjoying it all over again.