I know, I know, I'm not exactly coherent tonight. The more I write about gay rights, the more passionate I get about the issue. And I hear the most inane things from people who appear at first to have brains and cognitive capacity. All of which makes me even more ranty than usual.
I'm sorry, but "Marriage is between a man and a woman, therefore marriage is between a man and a woman" is not a valid argument to deny gay partners the right to marry.
I'm sorry, but "The Bible says homosexuality is wrong, therefore it's wrong" is not a valid argument in any debate. The Bible also says the sun stood still for a day (Joshua 10: 1-15), and that poses quite a few physics-related problems. And I'm not even going to get into Leviticus.
I'm sorry, but "If it's a good enough code for me to live by, it's good enough for everyone to live by" is not a valid argument. Do you see any way through which that might backfire? Like maybe if more than one opinion, one philosophy, one religion happened to exist side by side the same country?
I'm sorry, but the founders did not directly quote Scripture in the U.S. Constitution, so let's keep it out of state constitutions too, okay? You want to use it to make a point? Sure. But that doesn't give you the green light to cut and paste it into law.
I'm sorry, but your marriage is not threatened by allowing Kurt and Burt to tie the knot. You have lost no rights; the certificate is still valid. More to the point, you still need to listen to your spouse on occasion if you want the relationship to last. Look, you still need to floss at night if you want to avoid gum disease; your neighbor's flossing habits, or lack thereof, are not magically going to impact your own. (Yes, I DID just compare listening to your spouse to flossing.)
*briefly pauses rant, takes breath*
If we are going to follow the Bible to the letter of the law, watch out...everyone's rights are screwed. Start throwing out all those clothes that are made of mixed fabrics! Oh, you've cheated on your wife? Then the Bible says you should be stoned.
ReplyDeleteYou can't pick and choose what you are going to abide by. But that isn't what's happening, is it? People are picking and chooseing how they believe OTHER PEOPLE should live. Much easier than doing it themselves.
1. That's the danger with superimposing any religious text with the law.
ReplyDelete2. That's how far too many humans have functioned since the beginning of time... if only Jesus had addressed that issue... oh wait... "take care of the plank in your own eye before you mess with the speck in your neighbor's," straight from Matthew 7:5, my own personal translation.
Also, I should be stoned if I cheat on my wife. And I'd definitely have to be stoned to do that in the first place.
yeah, i'm the choir. so i'll just say...amen brother.
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And speaking of taking the Bible lterally, have you read A Year of Living Biblically (I think that's the right title), yet? Lovely section on stoning.