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Post by Nikkol on Oct 30, 2008 14:50:35 GMT -5
What are your views on domestic partnerships? Is it wrong? Does it depend on the purpose? Should there be rights given to them?
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Post by Rachel2 on Oct 30, 2008 16:18:44 GMT -5
What is your definition of Domestic Partnership? I want a clear understanding of what is being asked.
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Post by kitty on Oct 30, 2008 16:41:42 GMT -5
I do too... are we talking about gay rights?
Kitty
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Oct 30, 2008 20:19:27 GMT -5
What are your views on domestic partnerships? Is it wrong? I stand on the bible which says that the sin of homosexuality is wrong. Therefore whether they live together or apart, homosexuality is wrong. Fornication is wrong. I am not sure of this question, sis. Can you explain or give an example? I believe that as individuals, not homosexuals, that should be given rights. For instance, they should be treated fairly because they are human beings - but not special treatment because of an alternative lifestyle. |
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Post by Nikkol on Oct 31, 2008 7:30:11 GMT -5
My mind is actually thinking a LOT of things all at the same time. Part of me is thinking that you have two people who love each other but there is no sex involved at all.
Regarding rights: If that person is considered your family and that's the only person you really have in your life, should they be able to see you in the hospital? etc.
Side Note: But I guess that would depend on if ppl see homosexuality as the liking of those of the same sex vs. having sex with someone of the same sex.....which would then lead to if we think that you can change your attraction, etc.
Side Note 2: I was just talking to my husband last night about how homosexuality is so "almost normal" now, at least in PHilly. And how it's going to be interesting that for the first time, we are really going to have to talk to our kids that it's wrong though it's going to be basically what they see on a regular basis.....
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Post by Beulah5 on Oct 31, 2008 9:54:59 GMT -5
Homosexuality is not about sex alone there are a lot of homosexuals who are not having sex and who might never have sex but the inner brokeness and inability to have a desire with the opposite sex is still important to us as christians if we are to reach out to them with grace.
I believe that individuals shd have rights. I dont discriminate against homosexuals however in God's plan marriage and society is to reflect Him on a physical level and 2 partners of the same sex living together and having all kinds of rights reflects a very broken society and not a wholesome.
However if u are talking about 2 friends who are simply living together or rooming together of course that has nothing to do with all i have just said.
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Post by kitty on Oct 31, 2008 11:49:42 GMT -5
Ok....
Well Nikkol, since you put it in different terms I understand a little better.
In some cases a domestic partnership can occur between two people that are just friends, that could be roommates and have no other family living... I think this may be the case for many older or elderly people.
In this case I think there should be laws for domestic partnership... And indirectly those laws already exist I believe... you can have power of attorney for someone outside of your family medically... and for many other issues... I think you can also place life insurance for others in this way too...
But I will always believe that marriage should be only between a man and a woman. Period.... and I don't think any other "types" of ceremonies should ever be held in a church or acknowledged there.
What's next? Pastoral counsel for homosexual lovers?
Kitty
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Oct 31, 2008 19:40:10 GMT -5
Ok.... What's next? Pastoral counsel for homosexual lovers? Kitty unfortunately, it's already happening. |
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Post by krazeeboi on Nov 1, 2008 22:42:41 GMT -5
Obviously, we are talking from a legal perspective here, as "domestic partnership" is a legal term. As a legal, secular arrangement, I have no problem with it. I believe that two consenting individuals should be able to enter into any formal agreement that they desire.
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Post by Jasmine on Nov 2, 2008 23:55:29 GMT -5
domestic partnership, in its legal term, sounds a whole lot like "shacking", in my humble opinion.
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Post by krazeeboi on Nov 3, 2008 1:14:53 GMT -5
^Yep, and I wouldn't support a law that prevented two consenting adults from doing that.
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