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Tag: Marriage
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The Negative Impact Of Gay Marriage
There would be none.
From the religious standpoint, it is a violation of an ancient law, a bible verse from the Book of Leviticus written two thousand years ago. By this logic, (and I’m using the word very lightly), we should legalize slavery and define the rules on how to beat your slave.
Preposterous, right?
But, that is what you believe is the inerrant word of your god. So, okay, let’s dance to that tune. Guess what. It still doesn’t affect you!
Wanna favorite it, retweet it? Here’s the original Twitter link.
The fact that you, (and I), don’t fully understand how someone can feel romantic love for a person of their same sex, or that your religiosity makes you see gay love as an abomination; furthermore, that you might be grossed out by thinking about the ‘how’s of gay sexuality, are not good reasons for gay people to be denied the right to get married.
If you think that homosexuality is a choice, please think really hard and try to remember when you decided to be heterosexual. You won’t be able to remember, because you didn’t. You were born that way, and so were they.
Why should heterosexuality be more valued, or viewed as more normal, or more moral than homosexuality? It isn’t.
Why should you be concerned with what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their home?
Gay marriage is a matter of justice. Gay people are people, they deserve the same privileges and protections associated with marriage that everyone else is granted.
More importantly, homosexuality is a form of love, and just for that it deserves respect.
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― David Foster WallaceSaying that other people’s marriage is against your religion is like saying that I can’t have cake and ice cream because you are on a diet. @Monicks
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Relying on religion instead of yourself – not such a good plan.
A couple of weeks ago, we celebrated my cousin’s birthday. He and his wife have a somewhat funny story — not in a ha-ha way. They got married then got divorced and then got back together, and re-married, (say that twice more with four kids in the middle, who now have kids of their own), let’s say their marriage has pretty much gone down a bumpy road for twenty-some years. My cousin and his wife after being Catholic their whole life, have now become Christians.
They decided my cousin’s birthday party would be the perfect opportunity to renew their wedding vows so, this was a birthday, plus a Vow Renewal Ceremony, right? Don’t really know how that works, if you swore to love and cherish someone forever like three times before, and failed to keep your promise, why a fourth time would go differently? Well, their answer, I presume, would be: They now have a new religion.
I figure you know how these ceremonies go, so many inane assertions, like, I heard the pastor’s wife, who was the person leading this ceremony, say: “all things are possible through the grace of the lord” so many times, that I threw up in my mouth a little bit — repeatedly.
Oh yeah, there was a lady pastor running the show, excuse me, leading the ceremony — a she-pastor.(?) The pastor’s wife, really. Right there you have an example of how blatantly these Christians twist and stretch their holy book’s teachings to accommodate their beliefs into what is convenient to them. Don’t they know women were not allowed to even speak in the temple back then in bible age, let alone be priestesses or whatever that is? Even nowadays not only aren’t women all that appreciated in those areas of the world where the bible depicts its stories, but back then they were less important than cattle, but I digress.
What somehow pains me, is this mumbo-jumbo christian discourse, and I’m using this word lightly, is the glue that now holds this marriage together… so, in this particular situation, one really shouldn’t go creating awareness on the kind of deceit Christianity is. They don’t have a new god, they have a new religion. The problem I see is, these folks had to turn to a new religion to stay together, as if some magical entity, (the christian god, same god they worshiped before), is going to make things better; whereas I would think that a better sense of commitment to each other, a real desire to make their spouse happy, putting the needs of the other before their own, would be a good enough and more effective silk-lace to keep them together, and their marriage going smoothly. Honestly, I feel frustrated.
https://twitter.com/#!/Monicks/status/132308789851463680
It is very sad to see otherwise intelligent people, rely on religion, instead of taking responsibility of their actions, owning up to their faults, accepting the consequences of the mistakes they made before, and improving their relationship through their own working on making it happen. Anyway, I hope they succeed at life as a married couple, this time around, and finally be very happy.
