Random Rant
I know it has been a ridiculously long amount of time since I last posted, but I needed to get something off of my chest.
To all the bigots who have an issue with gay marriage, let me just kick your arguments in the nuts:
1) Gay marriage is an attack on the institution of marriage
- let me just say that my right to marry should have no impact on your marriage, your rights, your family, or your religious beliefs in the slightest. If they do, then the marriage you have is sham anyway, and you should stop blaming your failing marriage on the fact that I want to be with the person I love.
2) Gay marriage will prevent "those of us of the faith from being able to follow our religious beliefs"
- If the fact that a whole class of people has access to marriage in any way changes your religious beliefs, then maybe you aren't really a believer in the first place. For those of you who are believers and think homosexuals don't deserve the same rights because it's against the Bible, I'm sorry, but the Bible isn't federal law, and there is this wonderful thing called the Establishment Clause that created a separation between Church and State. Wanna know why? Because the people who founded our country were tired of being persecuted for their beliefs. They wanted to found a country where people would be free to believe what they wanted, and everyone would celebrate equal dignity under the law. If you want to live in a country where there is no distinction between religion and state, move to the Vatican.
3) The best family situation to raise children is one man, one woman.
- ideally, I might say I agree. But there are too many children in the world who don't have any parents, not to mention all the single parent families. In an ideal world, there would be no war, no taxes, no quarreling, and no hatred. Unfortunately, we don't live in such a world. Single parents, gay parents, and non-traditional families provide just as much love as "traditional" families, and are no less capable of raising amazing kids than anyone else. You want to "think of the children" when you call for discriminatory laws, then think of all the children helped and raised by gay and single-parent families. Think of all the kids being denied the benefits of their parents because you're unwilling to recognize their parents' status.
4) If you really believe in God and claim to be a Christian, stop being a hater. Never, in all my years of attending Church, do I remember hearing songs about the hatred of man or the right of men to judge others. Save the judgment for God, live and let live, and stop pretending to be a Christian when all you know is hatred.
To all the bigots who have an issue with gay marriage, let me just kick your arguments in the nuts:
1) Gay marriage is an attack on the institution of marriage
- let me just say that my right to marry should have no impact on your marriage, your rights, your family, or your religious beliefs in the slightest. If they do, then the marriage you have is sham anyway, and you should stop blaming your failing marriage on the fact that I want to be with the person I love.
2) Gay marriage will prevent "those of us of the faith from being able to follow our religious beliefs"
- If the fact that a whole class of people has access to marriage in any way changes your religious beliefs, then maybe you aren't really a believer in the first place. For those of you who are believers and think homosexuals don't deserve the same rights because it's against the Bible, I'm sorry, but the Bible isn't federal law, and there is this wonderful thing called the Establishment Clause that created a separation between Church and State. Wanna know why? Because the people who founded our country were tired of being persecuted for their beliefs. They wanted to found a country where people would be free to believe what they wanted, and everyone would celebrate equal dignity under the law. If you want to live in a country where there is no distinction between religion and state, move to the Vatican.
3) The best family situation to raise children is one man, one woman.
- ideally, I might say I agree. But there are too many children in the world who don't have any parents, not to mention all the single parent families. In an ideal world, there would be no war, no taxes, no quarreling, and no hatred. Unfortunately, we don't live in such a world. Single parents, gay parents, and non-traditional families provide just as much love as "traditional" families, and are no less capable of raising amazing kids than anyone else. You want to "think of the children" when you call for discriminatory laws, then think of all the children helped and raised by gay and single-parent families. Think of all the kids being denied the benefits of their parents because you're unwilling to recognize their parents' status.
4) If you really believe in God and claim to be a Christian, stop being a hater. Never, in all my years of attending Church, do I remember hearing songs about the hatred of man or the right of men to judge others. Save the judgment for God, live and let live, and stop pretending to be a Christian when all you know is hatred.