here’s why i’m in favor of marriage equality:
jim obergefell just wanted to be listed on his partner’s
DEATH CERTIFICATE as the spouse. his
death certificate. they had been
together 21 years. 3 months after their
wedding jim’s husband died of ALS. they
married in washington DC but ohio wouldn’t recognize their union. here’s the main problem i have with
this: it’s nobody’s business who decides
to spend their life with whom. Ii’s no
one’s business with whom your neighbor sleeps, loves or marries. just like it’s not your neighbor’s business with
whom you sleep with, love or marry.
i am a straight Christian who will never have to fight to get
married (no matter how many times i might marry/divorce/remarry, etc.) i will
never have to beg and cry and sneak around to visit my spouse in the hospital
or sue to be recognized on a death certificate.
if you are so sure that gay marriage won’t be recognized by God then why
in the world do you care? if you don’t believe
that the second marriage of a person who is divorced with a non-scriptural
divorce will be recognized by God then why do you care? God will be the judge of all of us. We are not the judges.
God inspired the writing of the Bible but God did not write
or inspire the writing of the constitution!
no matter what the Bible says about homosexuality, the Bible is NOT our
governing document. the constitution
allows for equal treatment under the law and that means if i, as a straight
person, can get married then a gay person can get married as well.
i contend that if more of us were outraged by shows like “the
bachelor” and “the bachelorette”, on which people compete for the affections of
a mate and the prize is a marriage that is as doomed as a led balloon, we would
have more of a leg to stand on when it comes to defending the “sanctity of
marriage.” THIS, we as a society, hold
up as entertainment and balk at gay marriage?
how is the former okay with Christians?
grace and peace and equality
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