I had someone show up on my doorstep first thing yesterday morning with a bright smile asking me for donations to help support an anti-gay-marriage amendment to the CA constitution, in order to invalidate those marriages that are happening in our state (and bringing in a ton of revenue and jobs, I might add, at a time when the economy is hurting
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I like to think that it means something good, that there's even an argument about gay marriage, when not so long ago no one would have seriously thought it stood a chance. I like to think that the scale is tipping towards tolerance, that sooner or later there will be no one left to listen to the homophobes.
But.
There are people I don't think I can convince that their opinion could use revising, because where can I start? What basic principle can we both agree on? I feel like all my deepest beliefs, all my principles ("There's no such thing as a law of conservation of happiness", "If God wants to take back his endorsement of love, he can tell me in person", "A god who demands that I behave unethically or immorally is no god of mine") would just slide off, because "It's not in the Bible". Except for when it is, like love thy neighbor as thyself.
Maybe that's the problem. Maybe these people don't love themselves at all, so they have trouble loving anyone else.
I realize that the mental image I have is bound to be a gross oversimplification, but it sounds as though having an Uncle Friar Tuck would utterly rock.
Less of a gross oversimplification than you think, maybe. ;D Except less drunk-and-disorderly, and more sometimes-needs-to-take-a-break-and-stop-being-Father-whatsis.
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But.
There are people I don't think I can convince that their opinion could use revising, because where can I start? What basic principle can we both agree on? I feel like all my deepest beliefs, all my principles ("There's no such thing as a law of conservation of happiness", "If God wants to take back his endorsement of love, he can tell me in person", "A god who demands that I behave unethically or immorally is no god of mine") would just slide off, because "It's not in the Bible". Except for when it is, like love thy neighbor as thyself.
Maybe that's the problem. Maybe these people don't love themselves at all, so they have trouble loving anyone else.
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PS I adore the icon you use for this post. I suspect Uncle Friar Tuck would, too.*g*
-- momz0r
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