I started up another discussion with my Christian friend via text, which has now moved to Facebook messaging. I'm not going to post the entire conversation. I'm only going to share part of my response to him. Our conversation turned to same-sex marriage (implicitly, that is. Neither of us brought it up directly). He suggested that the law should reflect the morality of the people (but which people?). The following is my response:
Discrimination mistakenly called morality is still discrimination. If you don't like gays, or at least don't like their actions vis-a-vis how they live their personal lives, that's fine. Well, it's not fine, but this leads to the point: society insofar as its laws are concerned is not about morality, but (ideally) about maintaining a peaceful communal organism. Society would collapse if there were no regulations on murder or theft, for example. But such moral issues as whether or not one eats meat, or uses swear words, or has whatever kinds of sex one chooses, are well beyond the regulation of law.
More Impromptu Theological Texting
More Impromptu Theological Texting
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