| | I recieved an e-mail today about a poll/petition on CNN asking if you support the President's view that a Constitutional amendment may be justified to legislate that marriage should be only between one man and one woman. The email sent stated so-called "Christians" had an obligation to influence their opinion that homosexuals somehow do not deserve this equality. I always try to find the right words to say, but my partner just nailed it! Sad thing is that his mother is the one who e-mailed us the poll.
Let me tell you about this stupid petition, let me tell you about Republicans, and let me tell you about the Village Idiot, otherwise known as G.W. Bush.
First, let me say I am very angry and hurt. I am angry and hurt that my family, the same people who share my flesh and blood, consider me to be an inferior form of human life not worthy of the same dignity and respect that they expect in their daily lives. I'm angry, hurt...and ashamed.
Now, let me tell you what "marriage" should be: "Marriage" should be about loving, supportive, nurturing relationships, and such relationships are not dependent on gender. Gay unions will only strengthen and enrich the social concept of "marriage."
Statistics don't support the notion that "striaght" marriages are more cohesive than gay "marriages." Time and time again, "straight" couples vow to "love, honor, and cherish, until death do us part," knowing full well that at least 50% of them will break those vows. Even members of this family, including those who passed this along, have been married multiple times! This isn't about "sanctity of marriage". This is about people using "religion" to pronounce judgement and to justify discrimination.
Remember, it wasn't that long ago when society, including the "church," said it was okay to prevent women from voting or to segregate our nation, including keeping African-Americans from drinking out of the same water fountains as white people! This issue is no different!
To "religious" folk, god hates the gays and the "evil, wretched" gays should be persecuted and punished and despised and discriminated against in this life and the next.
What does "marriage" as a legal institution have to do with the Bible, or the Scripture, or Jesus Christ? This may a newsflash to some people, but people of ALL religions get married, not just Christians, and so do agnostics and atheists who don't even believe in God. Even if Jesus, or the "church" for that matter, who is supposed to be all-forgiving and loving, can't accept gay unions, that doesn't mean the state and the law cannot legally recognize it. The last time I checked, America was a multi-cultural, secular government and its laws weren't simply an extension of Christ's (or any other religion) teachings, as interpreted by religious zealots. If you want to see the dangers of mixing religious "morality" with the laws of the government, and vice versa, I suggest you look at news reports from the Middle East.
I find it sad and deplorable that anyone who considers themselves a "Christian" could possibly be against anything founded on two people loving one another. Isn't that exactly what Jesus was trying to teach us? Legalizing gay relationships would be one more recognition that love conquers all. The sort of drivel being passed around below is mindless hate-mongering and scare tactics.
At the bottom of all of this, there are two very separate questions: (1) Should the "CHURCH" recognize gay relationships, and (2) should the "LAW" recognize a relationship between two loving, consenting adult human beings, regardless of gender. These are each mutually eclusive questions, neiter of which should have any bearing on the other. The law has no place in the pulpit, and the pulpit has no place in the courthouse! You can not and should not offer one set of rules for one group of people, but deny those same rights to another group of people simply because you hate or dislike them. This has nothing to do with "morality" but has everything to do with equality and fairness.
I am a law-abiding American citizen. I vote, volunteer, donate money to charity AND I pay over $25,000 a year in taxes. If these people think I'm a second-class citizen, or somehow an unworthy human, then why not reduce my taxes accordingly?
If what I see below is any indication as to how my family feels about me, it's no wonder I've not seen or spoken to any of them in years. They are not worth my time, energy or consideration. I don't have time to put up with people who hate who I am, thereby hating me.
So -- NO, I do not support this petition, and I DO NOT support president Bush!
Adrian
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