I have a question. Since there is soooo much religious freedom in this country and it apparently trumps everything, why don't we start a Gay Religion so we can marry? Seriously think about it, if we had a religion they would have to respect it and let us marry according to our faith so why don't we? It can't be THAT hard to make a religion, right? It's a can't beat them, join them kinda deal. I honestly want to know what everyone thinks about this. Thanks
I'm not very knowledgeable about legal stuff, but ye in theory if u make a religion and live in a place that ought to accept all religions and in your religion gay people can marry, then ... yep.
Makes sense to me If a Science Fiction writer from the 50's can create a religion centred around his works merely for the excuse not to have to pay taxes, and we still have brain dead nimrods today throwing their money away on Xenu's enlightenment, anything is possible
I guess it's possible, but the only issue would be getting people to join. I think this is one of those unpopular 'popular' ideas. The ones where people are like, "Yeah! Awesome!!" but then don't want to make the commitment themselves. Honestly, I probably wouldn't join. It'd be too 'label-y' for me.
'label-y' or not we should take advantage of everything we can to further our civil rights, if this turned out to be a ligament way to do so we would be fools not to pursue it. Our rights will not be given to us we must fight for them or live with being second class forever. 'label-y' is an immature excuse not to further your own rights.
If I my flick in my 2 cents... After going through a hellish personal battle to accept myself being gay and battling it with my Saviour I feel no need to abandon my religion/faith for what the masses think/say/expect/dictate. But good luck with the venture. Just dont go all bonkers like that group Mr T Cruise belong to... yikes!
In my beliefs any two people in a monogamous relationship that last 3 years or longer and who live together and love each other become spiritual bonded and ought to by right be recognized as legally married if they so wish it to be so.
No one said anything about abandoning your faith, this would be more of an agnostic movement. All views and faiths welcome as long as they do not call for the harm of others. At the core of it most if not all religions are the same and as long as we have that core in common we can be one group that believes many different things. Just like the Christians, they have many different beliefs centered around a common ideal. This is just broader.
The law kind of agrees - common law relationships, if they last long enough, automatically get some of the benefits of marriage.
I somehow could see this backfiring. Not from being gay, but the religious conservatives that believe that it's a part of the gay 'agenda' or a conspiracy to influence others of catching 'teh gay'
Irrelevant, because I can only see the "gay religion" being as legit as pastafarianism, which means it may have members, but nobody would truly honestly believe in it. It would be made as a reductio ad absurdum argument for religious freedom, and to illustrate how completely stupid some legal technicalities can be. It would be cool though, because for members at least, discriminating against them would mean an offense to their religion, so they could claim "freedom of religion!" and be using the exact same justification as the prejudiced opponents. Homophobics would be powerless in the face of Rainbowlicism.
Unless your religion allows you to marry and will take it to court you might have a problem. But as I said you can still have your faith, read the earlier post. ---------- Post added 27th Feb 2014 at 03:22 PM ---------- That is the idea! You put it perfectly! :eusa_clap
Kurt Vonnegut created a fictional religion (Bokononism) which might be relevant here: Bokononism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I honestly thought of something like this when I first read the title, though it's probably not far from the truth... If we're to have a religion, there should be some set of doctrines, first. Regarding the term "gay religion", would that mean it would be founded by and for gay people, and if so, how would that make sense, theoretically? We'd need something to unite them, and most religions have geographical or ethnic origins, but were able to spread to others outside of those close knit communities. The idea almost seems like having a gender religion, or an age religion... not sure how it would be enforced, either way.
Well, the religion that I belong to, Unitarian Universalism advocates for the equality of all people and allows same sex marriage. Anyway, with all of these lower federal court decisions against marriage discrimination, the US Supreme Court is almost certain to decide the issue in 2015. Mark my words.