Angela Harlem
Jesus Online
Ok, take a deep breath. No, take 2. We know where this is going to end up, but I am asking Christians perhaps moreso than others which is more of an authority to you, and why?
Now, someone sooner or later is going to comment that our laws are based on some religious principles anyway, and there might not be that much of a difference. But is there? I know we here, for example, have strict (but difficult to enforce) equality laws which do not allow the legal exclusion of anyone under any circumstances unless it falls into one or two exceptions where it can be argued if it is actually discrimination. But anyway. Is this the same in other places? Here is one area where religion and law clash, and I wonder why we let it go on. A conservative Christian asked me recently why the gay and lesbian community haven't taken the clergy to court, and it got me wondering. I've got no idea why. And before anyone says those in charge wont allow it to happen because their own beliefs are perhaps conservative as well, tell me why it is so often ignored if it is already written in law?
Now, someone sooner or later is going to comment that our laws are based on some religious principles anyway, and there might not be that much of a difference. But is there? I know we here, for example, have strict (but difficult to enforce) equality laws which do not allow the legal exclusion of anyone under any circumstances unless it falls into one or two exceptions where it can be argued if it is actually discrimination. But anyway. Is this the same in other places? Here is one area where religion and law clash, and I wonder why we let it go on. A conservative Christian asked me recently why the gay and lesbian community haven't taken the clergy to court, and it got me wondering. I've got no idea why. And before anyone says those in charge wont allow it to happen because their own beliefs are perhaps conservative as well, tell me why it is so often ignored if it is already written in law?