For some people, marriage between two people of the same sex insults their sensibilities. (and that is putting it mildly!) It is religiously wrong, because they have some document that proves that it is wrong. It trumps their sense of right and wrong. All the implications that can be thought of for why this should not be, they will find it!
There are so many boxes that have been created in our lives. Everything we do and all that we represent fits in those boxes. You can't be a cirle and fit in a square box, that doesn't work. You're going against the grain, against all that is natural, known and dare I say holy? In essense homosexuals do not fit the roles or the boxes that we have created in this life! Not in our lifetime, not in our backyards!
Am I being immoral because I have no objections to people of the same sex marrying each other? Some people do think that, I have no doubt about that. Same sex marriage is not an abomination of marriage in general, or against God as some like to quote. Same sex marriage does not make my own heterosexual marriage unimportant or less than what it is. What matters fundamentally is the right of each individual to choose the path that is their God-given right to do.
Although the legal papers now says that these people have the right to marry whomever they choose, they still do not have the legal rights, all the rights that a man and a woman in a marriage do. They won't be able to file taxes together, they won't be able to get all the benefits that a man and a woman in a marriage can from the government, if they need it, because although the law says they are allowed to marry, they are still not equal or legal in every aspects of their lives.
The article I have linked above, written by John Cloud, defines and clarify some of the things the California rulings does or does not do with the confusion to many about Gay marriage.
Marriage between homosexuals doesn't take away our rights as heterosexual individuals just because two men or two women seek to marry each other, but those who object gladly seek to take away what is a fundamental right of each person, their freedom!
I have not and am not questioning the sacredness of marriage. You seem to constantly turn this conversation into that! I have said time and again, that marriage is sacred, I do consider it to be so! I question why should it matter to all and sundry who are against Gay people getting married, why should it bother them? The only thing I've heard is because it makes marriage unsacred; it's against God; it's against my beliefs and/or principles. All of those opinions that are valid, and yet, what I would consider are opinions of many who do not agree with the existence of homosexuals because they are 'unnatural', and not of the norm of our heteorosexual society! What I question and opine and can't see the logic in, is that these people who object to Gay people, if thier rights were being trampled on, in just the same way that Gay rights is being trampled on, were they to lose their rights to worship or do anything that they WANT to do, would be just as upset and put up a loud cry in the streets to have their rights and voices to be heard and their rights available to them as citizens of this great country!
Telling me all that you have said, quoting from the scriptures, still has not answered my questions as to why should it matter to you? If two people getting married can make what you firmly believe and hold dear be useless and not sacred, then I can honestly say that perhaps you need to look within to see why this would be.
Listen sister, I don't know which God you worship, but the one that I do, loves all, knows all, and sees all. It is for HIM to judge me and everyone else, not you, not me and certainly not the courts, when the end of times are here. However, as the courts have to be the one to rule because of the laws that we must live by according to citizens of this land, they realise that they were wrong, and they are correcting that situation!
You want to high five, let us high five in the name of Jesus that he is a forgiving and loving God who loves and accepts everyone, especially us lowly humans who can't seem to live up to his expectations. That's why he send his son, his only son to fight for us, that's why he is God. He shows compassion and he teaches us to forgive and turn the other cheek. As you know, so many of us can't seem to do this very thing! Why am I going to condemn and shun the very people who he gives life to just because they are different from me? I say let them have their happy gay union!
Doc,
I really do think you and I are going to have to agree to disagree on this one. The way I see it, marriage is a social institution. You see it differently. Thats fine.
Lula,
You post tracts out of the Old Testament, which you believe as your religion dictates. Therefore, in your eyes, the ceremony is religious. Again, this is fine, if you are a Christian and believe in the bible. I, however, don't, so these tracts have absolutely no relevance to my personal beliefs.
This again is only relevant if you are Christian and believe in the teachings of the bible. As I stated above, I don't have the same beliefs as you. By the way, I don't need a bible lesson from you either. It gets flaming tiring.
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