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Jill showcases an essay by Marguerite Quantaine. What jumped out at me from the post is this quote:
"But this time, the Jeffersonian paradox challenges whether we, as a nation, believe the worst heterosexual is still better than the best homosexual.
Because all the worst heterosexuals in America can marry.
But even the best homosexuals cannot."How can we as Americans stand by while fellow citizens are denied equal protection under the law? This has everything to do with religion and nothing to do with the rule of law. That is, as long as you believe the naysayers who tell us that gay marriage is an abomination, a sin, against the laws of man. It should have everything to do with the law and nothing to do with religion. Either each of us can walk into the county clerk's office and purchase a license or we can't. Isn't it that simple?
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When people are free to love and express it, to cherish each other and commit to each other, isn't our society strengthened by each and every special moment of that love? How is it wrong to embrace our differences yet celebrate what makes us the same? We're human beings, with rights from God that man -- that government -- cannot take away.
Why do some people believe in these divine rights, except when they apply to all?
What a wonderful blog post! I found a link on Facebook just yesterday about gay marriage in the middle ages. (http://www.care2.com/causes/the-forgotten-history-of-gay-marriage.html) I always want to roll my eyes when I hear the phrase "traditional marriage" -- there are lots of traditions, and they were all new at some point, after all.
ReplyDeleteIt's time for some new traditions.
Liz - you're so right. Marriage equality sounds better - because it accurately reflects what the argument is. Either we all have the same rights in this country or we don't.
DeleteDitto on traditions - they are what we make them, hasn't it always been so?
I can think of little more stifling for intelligent women and men than a "traditional" (as defined by right-wing Christian men) marriage -- I suspect it requires the woman to stay home and not think for herself. The celebration of loving unions makes far more sense to me than the self-glorification of sanctimonious hypocrisy. I always rather liked the bit in the Bible about "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Whenever I read or hear pro-Christian, anti-whatever rhetoric, I always want to ask how they've withstood the temptation to sin.
ReplyDeleteYes, Tracy - if we kept with tradition, you and I would still be kept at home, not able to work, not able to vote, we'd still have Jim Crow laws... the list goes on and on.
DeleteI agree with you on "he who is without sin." Why does that verse always get lost in the discussion with those who want to keep everyone from being able to marry?
Isn't the Church supposed to be separated from the State?
ReplyDeleteI live in an apartment complex where most families are either divorced or single mothers. A very large amount of these families live with a male counterpart and on an average of 3 children only 1 would be his. To make matters worse the relationships don't last but a few years with domestic violence thrown in just because! If they do last past a certain amount of years most States recognize them a legal unions?! Where in all that is a "Traditional Marriage"????
You couldn't be more right, Christine. The sanctity of marriage is anything but for all too many people. What institution exactly is it that we're supposedly defending with DOMA and this campaign to prevent marriage equality?
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ReplyDeleteNO even to this day I don't see marriage as a equal union.