Does anyone else remember when Christians were this mad about interracial marriage?

It was wrong to treat non-whites as second class citizens. It is wrong to treat non-heterosexuals as second class citizens.

There will be a day when justice sees its due in the land of America

Hopefully it won't take 40 years. Times are changing and I think I've witnessed your view on here regarding the subject. I disagree with you but I still have respect for you. Discrimination is discrimination any way you slice it and I can't stand when people say that next people will want to marry a dog and then a broom...get real. What goes on behind closed doors with 2 consenting adults is their business. I feel there is no reason that they should not be allowed to marry and you yourself have said that this isn't a Christian Nation because not all people feel that way. I agree with that. I also can't see any reason other than religious anyone would oppose these unions. Gays pay taxes, own homes, vote, work....why should they not be allowed this union?

At one time interracial marriage was taboo. Right now gay marriage is taboo. Does that mean we're all going to hell in a handbasket? I think not. Tolerance does not equal acceptance and that's okay. You don;t have to agree with what gays are doing to support their right to do it. Just like you don't have to agree with people saying "sh!t" on TV but can still support the right of freedom of speech.

Faith is not admissible evidence in courts of law, Nor does it have any weight in rational and logical arguments about what is right,and what is wrong. These people,such as Buddy R., who try to validate their opposition to gay rights by quoting the bible have no argument until they can prove that god actually exists, and that every word in the bible is literally and acurately the word of god. Even then, it would still have to be given the weight of law in the usual way. It matters not at all what people thousands of years ago thought about homosexuality. We have no reason to accept biblical views on this issue any more than to accept the views expressed on slavery and witch killing. The pulpit was the last stronghold of slavery and the murder of women thought to be witches (many millions), and will be th last bastion of opposition to gay rights. The tide of progress eventually forced them to change their views on slavery and witch burning regardless of the biblical passages supporting them, and the same thing will happen with the issue of homosexuality.

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I have often said this myself. And I strongly disagree with those who make the argument that interracial marriage is not clearly spoken against in the Bible but homosexuality is. The people who preached against interracial marriage......indeed the people who brought Africans to this country and enslaved them in the first place, and denied them the opportunity to become Christians at all for over a hundred years.......believed the Bible was very clear on the subject. It is only now in hindsight that we read those scriptures with perspective and see that they were not. Just as many in the Christian community today are beginning to read the scriptures against homosexuality with new perspective as well, and are finding that they aren't as clear cut as the church would have you believe.

I don't know if it will be 40 years or longer, but I believe without a doubt that future generations will look upon the anti-gay sentiment today the same way we look at the anti-racial sentiment of the past.

I don't actually remember this, since I'm not quite that old... however I was aware of the historical precedent.

I just feel I should point out that back then, not all Christians were opposed to interracial marriages, just as now not all of them are opposed to homosexual or polygamous marriages.

There is a certain subset of Christians opposed to these marriages, but its hardly a universal Christian belief.

Yeah, it will. And note that bigots always think that "this time it's different." "Oh, well, sure, the anti-abolitionists were racists; but we're justified in referencing the Bible to prove that women shouldn't be allowed to vote." "Oh, sure, the people who rallied against women's suffrage were misogynists; but we're justified in referencing the Bible to prove that gay people are an abomination." And so on. There are always a group of reactionaries who exploit the convention of religion to justify their own petty bigotries and hold back social progress - regardless of WHAT the particular issue in play is.

And the ultimate irony is that as soon as a minority begins to enjoy the benefits of progress, it joins in on the next bandwagon of oppression of the next minority. How soon we forget! So now there are black ministers who are "outraged" that gay people would dare to call their struggle one of civil rights. "Conservative" women use their right to suffrage, which they only got in the last century (and which they owe to "liberalism"!), to vote for constitutional amendments to deny others their rights. It's like a vicious cycle of abuse.

Nor is this phenomenon confined to social issues. When the printing press was invented, it was the "tool of the Devil" until they printed a thousand Bibles on it. When Simpson introduced chloroform for use as a surgical anesthetic, "religious" interests attacked the idea until somebody pointed out that God had caused Adam to sleep before removing the rib. Progress still happens; these reactionaries can really only slow things down; but isn't that bad enough? Think of where the human race might be if we didn't have to battle these troglodytes tooth and nail every step of the way, for every little bit of progress, social, scientific, moral, ethical, and so on.

For some it really wasn't all that long ago:

"Bob Jones University ends ban on interracial dating", March 4, 2000

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/03/04/bob.jones/

"Alabama repeals century-old ban on interracial marriages", November 8, 2000

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1...

"This Modern World: A brief history of marriage in America."

http://dir.salon.com/story/comics/tomo/2004/03/01/...

you'll still find some people who claim to be Christians who get angry when they see a black person holding hands with a white person, those are what like to call "racists"!..I myself would not object if intra-racial marriage were outlawed!..FORCE people to marry someone of a different race!

No, it won't. I don't believe a same-sex marriage is recognized as a union by G-d, who defines marriage as being between a man and a woman, and for the last 5000 years, neither have my ancestors.

What 'gay marriage' is, is a legal union between two people, which allows them to have the same legal benefits as heterosexual married couples. The basic assumption in your argument is wrong. There is nothing in the Bible about the separation of the races, but there are several places that discuss homosexuality and marriage.

That's a moronic question. With people like this, it's no wonder our country is falling behind the rest of the world.

"And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet." - Romans 1:27

"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination." - Leviticus 18:22

"The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so [are] abomination unto the Lord thy God." - Deuteronomy 22:5