religous based law

[Nilloc James]

http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml ... d=57586886

Is this a logical extension of faith based law making?

[100%atheist]

http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml ... d=57586886

Is this a logical extension of faith based law making?

First, I don't think that there is anything truly logical that can be derived from faith. Polygamy can be faith based too.

Second, all I can say ... Goodluck Jonathan! I lol-ed for a while, thank you.

[Nilloc James]

http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml ... d=57586886

Is this a logical extension of faith based law making?

First, I don't think that there is anything truly logical that can be derived from faith. Polygamy can be faith based too.

Second, all I can say ... Goodluck Jonathan! I lol-ed for a while, thank you.

Not quite what is meant by logical in this case. What is meant is: if we accept faith based laws, are laws like this inevitable.

[keithprosser3]

I wonder why they think it is necessary to explicitly ban gay marriages. There was no way for gays to get married in Nigeria anyway, and the other provisions seem to be also redundant as homosexuality was already illegal and strongly suppressed in that country.

Nigeria is going through a bad patch, with severe problems due to the Boko Haram movement and increasing strains between Christians and Muslims. It is probably best viewed as an anti-Western gesture, or a sign that Nigerian politicians want to stress their conservative, traditional credentials when chaos is all around.

But of course this is the sort of law you will get if theocracy creeps into law making. The problem with faith based laws is they are based on the morality of thousands of years ago and of a society very different from today's and unlike laws framed by humans, divine laws are not subject to amendment or repeal reagardless of how inapplicable or inappropriate they are.

[99percentatheism]

http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml ... d=57586886

Is this a logical extension of faith based law making?

Are you saying that because a person has a religious view of life that they are disqualified from democracy?

That appears to be your position.

[czyz]

Nigeria banned homosexuality because the parties of God are in charge. Muslim law is homophobic and of course, God not being a big boy, needs help from these cretins to punish those who offend God. Another example why religion is a poison.

[JoeyKnothead]

From the OP:

Nigeria criminalizes homosexuality

I find it quite ironic, pending McCulloch's wise grammatical review, that the whole "I'm cool with the gays, and y'all get married but don't make me call it that" crowd is silent on this issue.

"I'm all for it, lest I can find me a case where I can oppose it!".

So you wanna pole-vault to Arkansas? As long as you ain't stabbing your stick in my hole to get there, why should I care?

[99percentatheism]

Nigeria banned homosexuality because the parties of God are in charge. Muslim law is homophobic and of course, God not being a big boy, needs help from these cretins to punish those who offend God. Another example why religion is a poison.

Please prove the phobia in opposition to homosexuality or please retract the accusation.

By the way, Crete was famous for pederasty. That is man-boy sexual behavior. So, the "cretin" charge, laid down on a Christian is spurious to the extreme. Except, eh-hem, of course, those that have done their thing with boys.

If religion is a poison, the lack thereof of God-based religion is socially parasitic and harmful. I believe history could support that with just one reading of the USSR's history.

[99percentatheism]

http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml ... d=57586886

Is this a logical extension of faith based law making?

Are you saying that because a person has a religious view of life that they are disqualified from democracy?

That appears to be your position.

So, any of you from the secularist "tolerance and diversity" crowd, want to wade in on my statement bolded above?

Are people of faith disqualified from a democracy?

That sure looks like what you want.

[Nilloc James]

http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml ... d=57586886

Is this a logical extension of faith based law making?

Are you saying that because a person has a religious view of life that they are disqualified from democracy?

That appears to be your position.

The point is the state enshrining certain religions' laws leads to laws like this. People are allowed to believe what they want, they just can't force it on others. I think wearing baseball caps backwards is an abomination, but I don't impose this law on others threatening them with jail. Homosexuality is a lot like baseball caps: you can think whatever you want, but since it doesn't harm you, you can't criminalize it.

May I remind everyone this is not an issue of "gays can't get married", this is a situation where people can go to jail for love.

Do you think people should go to jail for being gay?