Just My Humble Opinion
Gay Marriage
Look, I know that gay is the new black, but maybe we can avoid a bloody battle and come to a solution on this issue. I see no argument for denying gay marriage. I have two points:
1) The right to marry is a protected constitutional right. There is no legal argument which allows politics to deny it.
The Supreme Court has declared marriage a fundamental right. We can thank racism for that, actually. In 1967 in response to a case regarding anti-miscegenation laws, the Court took a case, Loving v. Virginia. A black woman and a white man got married and move to Virginia where that marriage was illegal. The court declared that the law in Virginia would violate the Due Process Clause as an undue interference with “the fundamental freedom” of marriage. So, although we can’t say this often, thank you racists. Without you, marriage may never have been declared a fundamental right. Notice that the main point of the decision is that a state can’t interfere with whom you marry. It may have been about race-black and white– but I say it logically extends to man and woman. The word “who” isn’t a loaded word. It doesn’t have racial connotations - it’s general. If it applies to race, it should apply to gender.
If we all use a little logic, we see the converse is true. The government can’t make you have a “gay marriage” because that would also be interfering with whom you marry - so chill the fuck out. Thanks.
2) Jesus told us to love whores, but not be whores (clearly paraphrasing). There is no religious argument for denying gay marriage.
Fine, Christians you think gay marriage is a sin. I don’t understand following one line in the Old Testament when no one follows the rest of it - such as keeping freakin’ kosher (and p.s. ignore Jesus message). But I don’t have to. You have that right. You don’t have to believe in it, you can think it’s a sin. That’s your right. Like it’s mine to disagree. OK? OK.
That means I don’t think churches should be forced to marry gay people - you believe what you believe and this country is great because you are allowed to. What I don’t see is an argument for churches to support laws banning gay marriage. Mm hello - Jesus said love everyone, sinner or saint. Judgment is for the gates and judgment day, not for us.
Churches don’t have to perform marriage of same-sex couples, but as far as I can see acting against gay marriage is bit “F- YOU” to Jesus and his teaching on LOVING THY NEIGHBOR. Hello - Mary Magdalene, anyone?
All this earthly judgment is putting St. Pete out of a job and it’s a really shitty economy.
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Tags: April, gay marriage, Loving v. Virginia, Opinion, politics, Reason
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November 12th, 2009 at 2:17 PM
potato-sensei says:Isn’t it great to live in a country that was founded on the basics of freedom of religion, but that’s only if your religion is Christianity? mrite?
May I add a point, and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt I’m repeating myself, as I tend to have to, because people keep bringing it up.
Point A: The government allows gay people to live together. They allow gay people to have sex with each other. There are no laws (to my knowledge) that prevent them from doing those two main things.
Point B: Those are the main 2 things that married people do. The only other thing they really have is a piece of paper.
So my point is, if the government is already allowing gay people to do the things that married people do (live together, have sex, even adopt children), then WHY NOT allow them to get married? It just doesn’t make any sense to me! It’s ok for them to be lovers but they can’t get married!? It’s the logical next step.
November 12th, 2009 at 5:56 PM
janice says:I don’t know… In Canada we’ve allowed gay marriage for a couple of years now, and it’s changed everything. The sky has turned permanently rainbow, potatoes are marrying handrails, and hamburgers eat people. It’s madness.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:44 PM
ramy says:janice, i just fell off my chair, that’s hilarious!
November 13th, 2009 at 4:29 AM
blah says:Hilar!
If the church wanted to keep marriage a holy union, then they wouldn’t have let the government give them tax breaks or be forced to apply for a license through the state. They also wouldn’t have allowed judges, JP’s or Captains on ships the ability to marry couples.
I think if Captain Stubing wants to marry a gay couple, that’s thier perogative. The minute the church put the state in charge of these “holy” unions, thier list of who can and can’t marry was thrown out the window.