.....I'm changing my tune...a bit.

Monday, January 23, 2012

.....I'm changing my tune...a bit.

 I am a Christian.  I love God and He loves me.  I go to church almost every Sunday.  I am a fiscal conservative.  I'm Pro Life.  I don't really care about animal rights.  I try to feed my family with as much natural stuff as I can.  But I'm not an organic manic.

I know where I stand on almost EVERY issue.  I can give reasons and statistics backing up most of my stances.  I have an opinion about EVERYTHING. 

But I don't know where I stand on the moral aspect of homosexuality.  *GASP*  (I just heard all of my Christian friends faint and my Liberal friends' jaws hit the floor.)

I really don't.  I hear what the Christian Conservatives are saying about it.  I have read it all in the bible.  Hear them saying what an abomination it is. 

And maybe it is.  I haven't figured it out for myself yet.  Here's what I DO understand.

The institute of marriage they  are all so hell bent on protecting?  You know the one 50% of straight couples totally ignore?  I don't think it's being ruined by same sex couples.  Considering they can't even GET married yet, I'd say they can't actually be the problem.

Want me to tell  you what is ruining the institution of marriage?  We are.

  No one even knows what the word "vow" actually means.  Marriage is just a way to be comfortable for a few years til we get tired of it and want to try something else.   (I know, I know, it was different for you.  Your spouse was impossible.  You just couldn't deal with it anymore.)

For better and for worse.  For richer for poorer.  Til death do you part.  I don't think this is getting through to people.  I think vows should sound like this:

"I understand that we are going to be married for the rest of our lives.  If you gain 300lbs.  If I tattoo my entire body.  If I spend all of our money.  If you burn our house down.  If we have kids.  If we don't have kids.  If you decide to quit your job and travel with the Harlem Globe Trotters.  If I decide to change my name to Mother Oak Leaf and start my own Wiccan tribe.  We will still be married. 

Shit's gonna go down.  People are going to be unhappy.  And we will still be married."

So why aren't these same people who are outside the courthouse protesting gay civil unions also outside the courthouse shouting obscenities at people filing for divorce.  Those are the people who are truly ruining the sanctity of marriage.

Let's say for argument's sake that it is a sin to be gay.  What is it about this sin that makes it "Public Enemy Number One?"  Why is it so harmful that we are pushing it to the top of the  "Stuff to Make Laws About" list?  I can think of about 50 things I feel are more detrimental to society right now than same sex marriage.  Just off the top of my head.

 SO WHAT if two people with the same sex organs want to get life insurance policies on each other? There are hundreds of thousands of girls trapped in America's sex trafficking underground.  You almost NEVER hear anything about it.  Which do you think is a bigger issue?

SO WHAT if Steve and Stu want to exchange rings and have wedding cake and a mortgage together? 3-4 women PER DAY are KILLED by their husbands.  Which do you think is a bigger issue?

SO WHAT if you might have to explain to your kid that the neighbors live in a way you don't necessarily agree with?  Every 50 seconds someone is killed by a drunk driver.  Which do yo think is a bigger issue? 

I would love to keep going.  But I'm running out of gay couple analogies. 

Bottom line is this:

1) You don't have to love the sin.  But you do have to love the person.  And  you don't treat people you love the way you are treating gay citizens. 
2) If you are claiming to be opposing homosexuality because of your Christianity.  Maybe you should use it to oppose something a bit more pressing.  Just maybe.


Stay Tuned for Part 2:  They want to have BABIES TOO!?