I don't know where to start. God and all that religious stuff sounds awfully vague for something you profess to believe in.
Which is why I clarified with the branch of Christianity I belong to and believe in.
Moreover, DoC with education in most other religions is equally vague. I doubt you know much about Islam or Buddhism. More likely, you know a little about other versions of Christianity or perhaps Judaism, which don't really count as strictly separate religions (in my opinion) unless you know something about Mormonism and their planet-harem-after-death scheme, which I won't get into at present.
In high school, I was absolutely fixated with religion and would go to multiple churches a week and interrogated the crap out of anyone remotely religious about their religion. So yes, Catholicism, Judaism, Jehovah's Witnesses, the branches of LDS, Islam, Hindu, Buddhism, Taoism, and many branches of Christianity are all something I can talk about factually.... I didn't grow up in a tiny town, I just ended up in one. Everyone has their hobbies, which they know and seek to learn a lot about. One of mine happens to be religion.
But I'm not talking about what other people believe. I'm talking about what I believe.
You are correct that it is not your place to say whether or not it is wrong. Where you get off track is where you say that being homosexual is an act of will. It isn't. In any sense of the word. That's like saying I chose to be white.
No, because you can choose not to have sex with your partners. It's not like being white, it'd be more like being the quintessential white whiner. You can choose half of it, just not the other.
If you want to be a technical jack, gay marriages that aren't done in the eyes of God are sins against Him, even when you take out the gay parts. If you can't get married, then you're having premarital sex.
All that aside, I think you're on the right side of the issue. I simply think that if you want to argue for something, you should know what you're arguing for.
I know what I'm arguing for, thanks. But it's nice to know you got my back when you think I'm screwing it up.
(That said, I believe the purpose of debates is to change the other person's mind.)
Edited by Napiform, 05 April 2012 - 04:03 AM.