Originally posted by loseyourname What is relativistic about it? Homosexuality is not wrong. Marriage is defined as the union of two people who love each other and wish to spend the rest of their lives together. It is a state institution and it should be defined by the state. As you said, one morality in such a gray area should not be forced on another. Therefore, your morality (which is a religious viewpoint, unless you have some other ethical theory on which you base this) should not be forced on a homosexual in a nation where state and church are separate entities.
Every society and its institutions are intolerant of some sort of behavior. Unqualified toleration is not only nonsensical it is impossible and lethal. A society’s toleration can be either coercive or non coercive. Since coercion is the exclusive province of the state, the state’s intolerance is necessarily coercive. There is, of course and there must be a non coercive intolerance. Society can shun or frown on certain behavior or attitudes that it deems unjust or in some way inappropriate. Intolerance, whether coercive or non coercive, always occurs in terms of a society’s or its institutions’ premises.
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