This week was an historic time in the fight for gay people’s
civil rights. The gay community has been celebrating the victory as we should
be. But we also know we still have a lot of work to do before we truly have
equality amongst those who disagree. I
will say this. I haven’t heard a good argument against gay marriage being legal
yet. So if you have one other than it’s not natural, it’s against the Bible,
procreation, imposing our “immoral” beliefs, scantity of marriage blah blah
blah give it to me. There’s a comments section, speak up!
This week I have seen very few negative posts on my
timelines about it. Most people are just not weighing in or they have been posting
supportive things. I have seen a couple posts here and there and some really
offended me. The main one I saw was this little diddy:
It’s deceptively packaged in wording that makes it sound
like “this is harmless, I do not wish you harm, and don’t tell me I’m wrong for
my opinion because then you’re a bad person.”
But to someone who is gay, who wants the same type life you have. We
want to be able to marry the person we love, have and raise our kids, be able
to do the same things with our families that everyone else gets to do and what
business is it really of yours to say we can’t or should n’t? To say or post this crap is literally telling
gay people “I have my life but you are not worthy of getting these same things
because MY bible told me so”. Do you hear how that sounds? They used the same exact arguments years ago
to fight interracial couples getting married and really integration in general.
And they even had Bible verses that they claimed backed that up. Sound
familiar? The Bible doesn’t tell you to
discriminate against people or treat some as though they are less than yourself.
It just doesn’t do that. The people who triumph in the Bible stories are not
the group of folks acting as a crowd but the underdog who really needs help but
is being trampled or blocked out of the crowd by healthy people. God is a loving, forgiving, and accepting God.
We are all sinners in his eyes and no sin is worse than another. If that’s the
case and we’re suddenly a theocracy then we shall outlaw beer, cigarettes,
divorce, tattoos, cussing, large portions at restaurants and probably even some
of these churches because some of these church leaders are being worshipped
like God himself.
Jesus walked amongst the sinners to show us God’s love. He
didn’t elevate himself above us and discriminate or exclude those whose
lifestyles were not according to the Bible.
He actually protected sinners. So now we have turned around God’s word
and snobbed it up in true human fashion. We snub those who don’t conform to
what OUR interpretation of the Bible is and group up into cliques and judge
like our own mess don’t stink.
It’s sad that we use this book, this holy book as a tool of
hatred and discrimination. We as Christians must learn to appreciate and even
celebrate the differences between people. We must remember that faith is
personal and our sins are really only between us and God. You are free to have
your beliefs but one has to understand the difference between what they believe
and what others should be free to do.
If gay people get married, nothing at all happens to your
faith, to your marriage, to your life by allowing others to share in the same
happiness, and it’s selfish to voice such a strong opinion when you don’t even
have a dog in the fight. As a
heterosexual you can get married, have kids, and not have to worry about the
expense, time, and hassle of 1 parent having to legally adopt the kid that
their partner had so that both people have legal parenting rights. Or you’re
allowed to make decisions on your partner’s behalf in the event they are too
sick or hurt to do so – or even as simple as being allowed in to see them in
the hospital without having to have pre planned (and spent $) to have those legal
documents drawn up to allow that ahead of time as well. Whereas bubba and betty
sue can get drunk and get those rights automatically after a drunken night at a
elvis themed wedding chapel in vegas. Yup soo sanctimonious. Aint it great to be straight!?
