And my state has been drug, fighting
and screaming into the 21st century. This, only four months after we fortuitously
failed to elect a governor who spoke of making ALL forms of sodomy a crime.
(That treat you gave him being such a good boyfriend / husband? It theoretically
could have landed both of you in jail.) If you listen carefully you can already
hear the conservatives screaming about how this will lead to a rise in
pedophilia and people marrying their pets. You know, just like when the arrest
of a Virginia couple for breaking Commonwealth law ended up going all the way
to the Supreme Court, resulting in a ruling allowing interracial marriage
across the country. Remember the huge increase in human - feline marriage
applications after that? No? That’s because it didn't happen. Those proclaiming
that they're trying to 'protect the sanctity' of traditional marriage need to
sit down with their third wife and look it up. Grab your closest Bible. If you
marry someone outside of your own faith you are not in a 'traditional
marriage'. Virgin girls are supposed to be taken as spoils of war and submit
sexually to their new 'owners'. Nope, not military policy anymore. If a woman
is raped she is to marry her rapist, but to be fair, the rapist must pay the
girl's father fifty sheckels, estimated to be about $12.50, for the loss of his
‘property’. Don’t forget the polygamy, the kings with hundreds of concubines
and my personal favorite, the part where a widow without a son was required to
marry her brother in law and, of course, submit to him sexually. Many of my
religious friends will tell me that those laws ‘don’t count’, how everything
changed when Jesus showed up on the scene. Jesus had something to say about those
old laws that he allegedly got rid of. "Do not think that I have come to
abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.
Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest part or
the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken
place." (Matthew 5:17 NAB) So there are two ways of looking at this.
Either there has never really been a true ‘traditional marriage’, or we, as
people, have been changing it all along, as our society expands and evolves and
we learn to respect other people, cultures and genders. I’m married to a woman
because I’m straight. It’s my second marriage. Along with myself and their
mother, my children are lucky enough to have a stepmother and a step-fiance’
who love them like crazy. I also have friends who are gay and bi. Some of them would love to get married.
Would that hurt or destroy my marriage? Actually it would strengthen it. Why?
Because it would bring more love into this world. Look around you. What do you
see? Darkness, sadness, hate. And we’re trying to deny people a way to
strengthen the bonds of their love? There are many ‘traditional’ things that
are antiquated and whose time is long past. Slavery, abuse of people by those
in power, killing in the name of God. Love is a message that has been spoken,
taught and preached throughout recorded history. Instead of fighting over love,
instead of fighting about those who love, it’s time to simply allow people to
love. All men, all people, were created equal. Let’s simply accept that and
move on.
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