Pope Calls Gay Marriage Part of ‘Ideology of Evil’
Think about those communities where marriage does not exist. What you see is a model of what life would look like in a country that has fathers and mothers not wedded together in strong relationships to raise children. If we deconstruct marriage in society, if we say marriage is whatever you want it to be, then marriage loses its intrinsic value. The less virtue we have in our society, the more the need for government to control our lives, to govern our lives.
- Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pleasantville)
OK, so call me clueless, but I have to admit to having a very difficult time understanding why so many people are so adamantly, balls-to-the-wall opposed to the idea of gay marriage. Outside of the moralistic, self-righteous desire to deny someone the right live their life as they choose, what REALLY is the problem here? Who is being harmed?
Whenever anyone has gone off on me regarding the issue of gay marriage, I’ve always had a very simple answer.
IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN GAY MARRIAGE, DON’T HAVE ONE.
Simple, eh?? Why is this even an issue? With all of the pain and suffering and anguish in our world today, we’re going to lose sleep over gay marriage? How does the concept of two people pledging their love and devotion to one another constitute a threat to our society? If you’re going to use the “Well, they’re not going to have children, are they?” argument, stop yourself before those words pass your lips. News flash…THEY’RE GAY!!! Unless you know something about reproductive science that I clearly missed out on, gays and lesbians understand that their unions will not produce children in the manner that heterosexual couples will. That should not be news to anyone with at least a nominally functional frontal lobe.
Susan and I went to see comedian Lewis Black at the Verizon Wireless Theater in Houston about a week ago. Black devoted about half of his 90-minute rantfest to the issue of gay marriage. While what he had to say was really quite hilarious, he did manage to make several very good points. Who, really, is being harmed by the idea of gay marriage? Since when does a stable, loving relationship run counter to the public interest? Why should gays not have the same rights available to heterosexual couples? Why should some narrow-minded, self-righteous, judgemental religious bigot have the right to deny ANYONE the right to share their life together with the blessing of the state? Why should anyone have the right to deny to gays the rights that accrue to married heterosexual? Good questions, and one that no Social Conservative zelaot has been able to adequately answer.
Dude, have you taken a good look in the mirror lately??
Too many people will argue that legalizing gay marriage will pave this nation’s highway to Hell, that it will be the hallmark of the moral decay of Western Civilization as we know it. What a load of crap. All most gay couples want is to be left alone to live their lives as they see fit. You might not agree with the lifestyle, but does that give you as part of the majority the right to deny someone what should be seen as a basic civil right? Not in your wildest dreams.
Call me naive, but I just don’t get it. So many seem so hell-bent on denying gays the right to marry. So much of the opposition is based on hatred, misunderstanding, and bigotry. Most people don’t understand, they don’t want to understand, and yet they are quite willing to continue to oppress those who simply want to be allowed to live their lives as they see fit. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CAT LITTER, y’all; is your hatred, ignorance, and narrow-minded self-righteous self-superiority really so all-powerful that you see no problem with your discriminating against those who happen not to share your narrow moralistic bigotry?
I was always taught that America was about “live and let live”. How wonderfully naive. How horribly, horribly wrong….
I’ll make a deal with y’all. When we bring our troops back from Iraq, when we find a cure for HIV/AIDS and cancer, when we capture Osama bin-Laden and stop terrorism, when we solve the scourge of world hunger, when we help bring peace to the Middle East, when we find a resolution to rampant poverty in the Third World, when we can convince brutal, repressive dictators to step down- THEN perhaps we can tackle the issue of gay marriage. OK? Until then, let’s deal with the truly important stuff first.
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