Ultimately, Steve McCarthy is guilty of arguing his position based upon the same basis that he declares illegitimate when it is used by his opponents -- theology.
I see marriage as a civil right, and no group's religious beliefs should be allowed to deny the rights of others. And because blacks have suffered from bigotry and injustice that were cloaked by religion and morality, we should avoid doing the same thing to others.
In other words, policy positions based upon religious belief are anathema -- unless they are policy positions that Mr. McCarthy supports. And this is an argument we hear again and again from the allegedly-religious Left, which declares their liberal position infalible based upon their own religious beliefs, while declaring heretical any divergent views.
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I may be missing your point here, RWR, and the problem may be that I
|| Posted by Dan, August 22, 2006 05:07 AM ||don't know enough about McCarthy. Does he elsewhere argue
that religion should be used to deny someone civil rights? I
don't see any inconsistency in the quotation you provide.
One, he never establishes that homosexual marriage is a civil right -- and he bases the acceptability of homosexual marriage upon his interpretation of Scripture. In insisting that his religious belief on the matter be made public policy, he is in effect calling for others to be denied their rights to exercise their religious convictions freely -- for installing homosexual marriage in American law will deny the full exercise of religious freedom to the very religious opponents of homosexual marriage he isists are bigots.
|| Posted by Rhymes With Right, August 22, 2006 07:50 AM ||He doesn't base his argument on the acceptability of equal marriage rights for homosexuals on scripture, at least not in the excerpt you provide. Again, I might be missing your point, because I don't know anything about McCarthy other than what you provide.
Regardless, I haven't seen anyone calling for abolition of heterosexual marriage, or for requiring churches to celebrate homosexual marriage.
|| Posted by Dan, August 23, 2006 07:26 PM ||Frankly, I expect to see the application of the Bob Jones precedent to strip non-conforming churces and religious institutions of their tax-exempt status if homosexual marriage is ever imposed upon the nation by a renegade court.
|| Posted by Rhymes With Right, August 23, 2006 07:38 PM ||Post a comment