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Many people get riled up and outraged at things that are really quite silly. People have made signs, protested and gone to all kinds of lengths to stop gay marriage from happening. And for what? So that two men or two women can't get married? Homosexuality isn't illegal (nor should it ever be) and a gay couple can still live together, why shouldn't they be able to enter into a committed union? One can call it whatever they want, but it really doesn’t concern anyone who isn’t gay.
Now, there shouldn’t be a dispute among Christians that homosexuality is a sin, but somehow it has become a bigger sin than all the others—And that doesn’t make sense. There’s a reason why God made all sin equal in His eyes, it’s so that His children can’t run around telling other people that they are better than them. People do it anyway and they try and use the Bible to prove that they are better than others, but so many seem to easily forget that they are just as much a sinner as anyone.
God is great and so is America. The freedom of religion in the U.S. is a beautiful thing, but so is the freedom from religion—it’s just as important If we didn't have a separation of church and state, any moron could go into office and tell us that God commands that we do certain things (some may argue that that's exactly what George W. Bush did, but that's another argument), however everyone has a different interpretation of God (as is apparent with the division of Christian faiths - Catholics, Protestants, Mormons and even the Westboro Baptist Church, famous for their "God Hates Fags" signs), so it'd be a very dangerous thing if we were subject to the self-proclaimed moral rule of any particular religious-minded individual.
That's exactly what's happened here. A number of people with power and resources have interpreted that God does not want gay people to get married because homosexuality is a sin. God is also a big supporter of free agency. So these people are taking away the free agency of homosexuals, claiming that they are protecting marriage. Marriage, as much as many would like to lead you to believe, is not under attack.
At one time there were a group of men about to stone to death a promiscuous woman, they talked to Jesus and He said to them: "he who is without sin cast the first stone." As everyone knows, everybody stepped away; Jesus walked over to embrace the adulterous woman and told her to go and sin no more. Now, Jesus can tell people not to sin because He's... Jesus. Christians aren’t meant to tell people they are sinning, they are meant to tell people about God through love, there is a difference, you know.
That's all this whole Prop 8 debacle has been-- A bunch of people stoning and nobody embracing. The teachings of God are meant to be spread with love, peace and understanding. While people were donating millions of dollars and spending exhaustive hours trying to stop gays from getting married, they could have spent all that money on feeding endless villages in Africa or getting children off the street and into a warm home. Are there really that many Christians out there that think God is less concerned with feeding children than He is with two men whom are sinners (just like every human) getting the same benefits as everybody?
The reality of the situation is that gay marriage is inevitable, one by one every state will legalize it and those millions will have gone for nothing but to hinder any Christian church's progress. Any non-believing gay person is now going to be about five times more disinclined to be receptive to a message about Jesus, God or the BIble because of the negative connotations that have been pressed upon a large majority of the Christian faith.
That’s not to say that everybody who voted Yes on Prop 8 was hateful or contemptuous; some actually thought that they were protecting marriage (under the false understanding that gays could sue a church for not marrying them, which is absolutely untrue) and some simply thought it wasn't a good idea, but something many people have failed to do while passing judgment and hurling proverbial stones is imagine what it would be like if somebody came along and told them that they couldn't marry the person they were in love with. Gay marriage won’t destroy society, if anything, banning it is only going to encourage promiscuity.
What’s next? Banning atheists from getting married?
-CSL
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