How is it American to use religion to justify a ban on Gay marriage?

In a nation that was founded on freedom of religion, how is it American to use religion to justify a ban on Gay marriage?How is it American to use religion to justify a ban on Gay marriage?
Pure ignorance and homophobia.How is it American to use religion to justify a ban on Gay marriage?
Freedom OF Religion, not Freedom FROM Religion. I think you are confusing the two, like so many others. There is no ';separation';, although people don't read the Establishment clause to understand it. Anyway why can't we end Marriage being instituted by the Govt and make them ALL Civil Unions? Then they can give it to anyone they want and everyone will have the same rights(including name) without people bringing up religion.
Like a pack of howling hyenas calling each other to assemble, the religious do the same thing. They try to make numbers mean they are right. Popular does not make right.





Freedom OF religion by it's very definition must also mean freedom FROM religion.





Marriage does NOT belong to any religious cult. It was happening long before various books were written.
You answered your own question.


A nation founded on freedom of religion. Religions of Christian, Methodist, Episcopalian, Muslim, Catholic, Baptist, Angelican, Baha'l Faith, Calvinist, J.C. of Latter Day Saints, Jehovah's Witness, Quakers, Hindu, Buddist, Lutheran, Evangelical, and others too numerous. All have the basis of the Ten Commandments in one form of words or another. That's how the laws of this nation were created. Each of these religions forbade sexual orientation between like sexes and thus, is your justification to place a ban. Homosexuality is not a religion, it's a personal preference of living, so marriage between gays is not a marriage.
It would not be ';American'; for any GOVERNMENTAL UNIT, ORGANIZATION OR AGENCY to use religion as a basis to justify a ban on gay marriage.





However, you could argue that it is ';American'; for an INDIVIDUAL to use religion, or any other excuse, to justify a ban on gay marriage because the first amendment guarantees freedom of expression, and people have a right to voice their views and opinions.
Why is the church such a large part of how Americans live? I guarantee that all of you here know as much about the constitution as you know on the bible. It should be two separate entities, law and religion. If you want to incorporate the two, then how do you compensate for agnostic, atheist, Christian, Catholic, Norman, Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist, etc. all at the same time? It makes no sense to use religion as the excuse to ban gay marriage. And it makes no sense to say that it is just plain wrong either. It isn't like a gay person is barking up your tree anyway, is it?! Not to mention, if we just made laws because you don't think its right, then do we get to make a law about something i don't think is right? I don't agree that people should be allowed to be left handed. Its just wrong. Let's make that illegal. Lets force them to be something they are not. Yeah, do I sound stupid? Because so do those who just use the 'it's just wrong' excuse. You guys are assholes. And no, I do not feel that way about left handed people. It was an example of how stupid that argument makes a person sound.
Long before states started intervening and making their own laws to allow for civil marriages, one could only get married in a church.





Nobody cared when gays were just hiding away, having discreet sex because they were doing what they wanted to each other with no real consequence to others.





Yet, with this assault on traditional marriage, many religious people consider this to be a form of sacrilege because you can't take something traditionally acknowledged to have been created by God (like marriage) and make it into something it was never meant to be.





Marriage, for countless THOUSANDS of years, has always been between ONE MAN and ONE WOMAN.





Nobody had a problem with this, yet nowadays, people are attempting to redefine it and alter it to be something it was never meant to be.





Today, it's gays and lesbians who want to get married.


Tomorrow, it'll be one man wanting to marry three women.


The next, it'll be Peter Griffin wanting to marry his blueberry pie.
Two tax-paying Americans capable of consent who want to marry MUST receive the same protection under the federal legal system and have the same constitutional rights as everyone else, regardless of gender/sex/sexuality. If religious centers want to deny Americans who are gay, their blessing, be it. The government operates based on the Constitution not Bible/Quran.
If you're a Christian and you're a dude, don't be a ****** and marry another dude. Simple as that. Don't force your religious views on the rest of the country. As long as you don't do it, then you're not in sin. It's not your job to sanctify America!





I'm talking to Christians who do this, by the way.
they can ban any type of marriages they want





Marriage is not a right.
Who needs religion, just use common sense.
marriage is from the church so that is how