My Two Moms. Religion and Homosexuality

At the height of Zach's media attention, news anchors and interviewers wanted to pick his brain on everything from being a boy scout to his philosophy of religion in relationship to homosexuality. Zach talks in the book about how if someone drinks a can of diet coke or buys a playboy it's not immoral because they are not affecting anyone else's lives by doing so. If someone smokes a cigarette in a room by themselves, it might be unhealthy, but it's not immoral because they are not affecting anyone else with secondhand smoke. However if that person were to light up in a room full of toddlers, that is immoral because not they are hurting someone else. There is nothing inherently immoral about eating pork but, to an observant Muslim, it is an affront to god. Zach says, "To conservative Christians sleeping with someone of the same sex is committing a sin. In some denominations, working on sabbath is considered immoral. Tattoos are thought to be by many to be unclean due to religious beliefs. But tattoos are increasingly popular, Walmart is open 24/7, and the U.S Supreme Court has ruled that antisodomy laws are unconstitutional and a violation of privacy."

Getting the idea? Zach is saying that there are a lot of things that religions can deem immoral but that doesn't mean that the law sees those actions in the same way. His philosophy is that you should be able to do what you want so long as it doesn't harm other people. The right that allows Christians to be able to speak against homosexuality in their churches is the same law that protects a homosexuals right to be who they are; we have a right to speak our minds and pursue our happiness'. It's interesting to me that America still hasn't really grasped the idea that it is not inherently immoral if it does not damage another being in a rational way. I remember when my dad came home from his first trip to the United Arab Emirates, I asked him what the best part was. He said he saw these two business men in an argument and they were holding their hands behind their backs. He thought they looked pretty silly and was waiting to see if one of them would actually punch the other. But they never did; the heat died down, they shook hands, and parted. When my dad asked his friend why they had their hands behind their backs, his friend said that it was because it is illegal for them to fight. Fighting is causing another person harm and to them, that would be criminal. It's very interesting and different from American culture. If you were to adapt this philosophy in America, what would that mean for gay marriage? Since there is absolutely no rational evidence on the face of this earth that Two consenting people of the same sex being married affects anyone else, it should be legal. 

P.S (I italicized "consenting people" for those weirdos out there who like comparing gay marriage to inter-species marriage, a.k.a beastiality. Key words: consenting, people.)