Gay Marriage
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ericadawn16Nancy Pelosi had the best remark to all the conservative backlash over the Supreme Court's decision today:
"Who cares?"
I know I shouldn't care but I do.
My best friend could comment on the dissent with a mature outlook:
Scalia may be an ass, but he is a fantastic writer.
I raged at what sounded like something out of the Dark Ages or something.
" It is hard to admit that one’s political opponents are not monsters"
No, I do not think those oppose gay marriage are monsters. However, I think there are understandings that could go both ways that a lot of people don't get...
1. In that same way that you feel that homosexuality is "unnatural", many of us feel that not wanting homosexuals and others who are different than you to be happy is unnatural. To us, God created lesbians and others just as he made some people to be left-handed, have red hair or have darker skin. To punish someone for how God made them when it doesn't hurt anyone is unfathomable. We don't understand it. What's that phrase you like to use so much? "Hate the sin but not the sinner"? No, we don't hate you but we do wish you could see our point of view instead of chastising us for not agreeing with your's.
2. Don't act like your Christianity is the only version around. When you talk about "your God" and how your "God believes homosexuality is a sin", it makes it very hard on the rest of us Christians who believe in a much more benign, loving dictator than you do. You do not have a direct cellphone to God. I don't have a direct cellphone to God so until we die, you have to accept that all versions could be true and I will try not rage over how you do your version of it.
3. Although I won't hate you, I am disappointed that you would single out specific people as not deserving of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" granted to all Americans. Thus, I feel perfectly entitled to not only express my dissatisfaction in verbal form but also with my wallet. I won't knowingly support your hate mongering. In fact, one of your own, Rand Paul, fully supports this action considering what he wrote about the Civil Rights Act:
"I would not go to that Woolworths, and I would stand up in my community and say that it is abhorrent"
One day, we will have legal marriage for all legal adults of sound mind in all fifty states and territories and it will not erase bigotry in the same way that the Civil Rights Act didn't erase racism but it will make things better.
When we're free to love anyone we choose,
When this worlds big enough for all different views,
When we're all free to worship from our own kind of pew,
Then we shall be free
-Garth Brooks
"Who cares?"
I know I shouldn't care but I do.
My best friend could comment on the dissent with a mature outlook:
Scalia may be an ass, but he is a fantastic writer.
I raged at what sounded like something out of the Dark Ages or something.
" It is hard to admit that one’s political opponents are not monsters"
No, I do not think those oppose gay marriage are monsters. However, I think there are understandings that could go both ways that a lot of people don't get...
1. In that same way that you feel that homosexuality is "unnatural", many of us feel that not wanting homosexuals and others who are different than you to be happy is unnatural. To us, God created lesbians and others just as he made some people to be left-handed, have red hair or have darker skin. To punish someone for how God made them when it doesn't hurt anyone is unfathomable. We don't understand it. What's that phrase you like to use so much? "Hate the sin but not the sinner"? No, we don't hate you but we do wish you could see our point of view instead of chastising us for not agreeing with your's.
2. Don't act like your Christianity is the only version around. When you talk about "your God" and how your "God believes homosexuality is a sin", it makes it very hard on the rest of us Christians who believe in a much more benign, loving dictator than you do. You do not have a direct cellphone to God. I don't have a direct cellphone to God so until we die, you have to accept that all versions could be true and I will try not rage over how you do your version of it.
3. Although I won't hate you, I am disappointed that you would single out specific people as not deserving of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" granted to all Americans. Thus, I feel perfectly entitled to not only express my dissatisfaction in verbal form but also with my wallet. I won't knowingly support your hate mongering. In fact, one of your own, Rand Paul, fully supports this action considering what he wrote about the Civil Rights Act:
"I would not go to that Woolworths, and I would stand up in my community and say that it is abhorrent"
One day, we will have legal marriage for all legal adults of sound mind in all fifty states and territories and it will not erase bigotry in the same way that the Civil Rights Act didn't erase racism but it will make things better.
When we're free to love anyone we choose,
When this worlds big enough for all different views,
When we're all free to worship from our own kind of pew,
Then we shall be free
-Garth Brooks
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Date: 2013-06-27 03:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-27 04:31 am (UTC)Of course, since they basically reproduce by means of cloning, that brings up another subject that apparently some of these bible thumpers haven't discussed with their god before declaring he's against it.
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Date: 2013-06-27 06:10 am (UTC)Word. I'm not a terribly religious person. I will generally classify myself as a theist, but I don't tend to affiliate myself with a particular religion because I find things in Buddhism, Christianity, and Neo-Paganism that I like. That said, one of the coolest things I've ever done was read further into Romans than people who use it to pass judgement on homosexuals ever seem to. Romans 2:1 NIV says, "You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things." I think that's even clearer than Matthew 7:1 NIV saying, "Do not judge, or you too will be judged." The Romans verse says flat out that at the point you judge another person that is the point at which you condemn yourself. Full stop.
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Date: 2013-06-27 04:12 pm (UTC)You are very well worded and compassionate.
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Date: 2013-06-27 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-27 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-28 04:32 pm (UTC)oh and I totally agree with you, and the quote :)