Same-Sex Marriage
Oct. 30th, 2008 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
not_hathorIn support of same-sex marriage
Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.
Seriously, my marriage is more endangered by the current culture of entitlement, self-absorbtion and failure to accept personal responsiblity for actions. What ever happened to "Do unto others as you would have done to you" and "love your neighbor as yourself" and 'judge not lest you yourself are judged", and those oldies but goodies: 'You shall not commit adultery, bear false witness against your neighbor, or covet your neighbor's spouse, etc.'
Since the beginning of recorded history, human societies have developed contracts with each other for the sharing of property, for the engendering and nurturing of children, for protection and political influence, and for companionship. These contracts have taken many forms throughout history, and while most societies have encouraged these contracts to be formed within the context of the prevalent theology, 'marriage' as a religious institution didn't come into being until Judeo-Christian ethics and dogma began to dominate Western European culture and society from around 1000 A.D. to the present day. Even then, until fairly recently (late $1800's) marriage was still pretty much a civil contract based on property and propagation. And considering the prevalence of divorce in today's society and its emphasis on the 'fair' distribution of familial property and the ensuring child support, marriage still is basically a civil contract.
Personally, I don't feel at all threatened by same-sex marriage. I DO feel threatened by the so-called Christians who want to impose their narrow-minded interpretation of God's Will on everyone , regardless of race, religion or creed, by explicitly excluding a significant portion of the population from enjoying a long-term sexual and emotional relationship simply because they desire to do so with an individual of the same gender, and have such recognized legally by their respective state's civil government. Not everyone in this country is a Christian, or comes from a Western European Judeo-Christian cultural background.
Try reading and LIVING the Amendments, folks!
Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.
Seriously, my marriage is more endangered by the current culture of entitlement, self-absorbtion and failure to accept personal responsiblity for actions. What ever happened to "Do unto others as you would have done to you" and "love your neighbor as yourself" and 'judge not lest you yourself are judged", and those oldies but goodies: 'You shall not commit adultery, bear false witness against your neighbor, or covet your neighbor's spouse, etc.'
Since the beginning of recorded history, human societies have developed contracts with each other for the sharing of property, for the engendering and nurturing of children, for protection and political influence, and for companionship. These contracts have taken many forms throughout history, and while most societies have encouraged these contracts to be formed within the context of the prevalent theology, 'marriage' as a religious institution didn't come into being until Judeo-Christian ethics and dogma began to dominate Western European culture and society from around 1000 A.D. to the present day. Even then, until fairly recently (late $1800's) marriage was still pretty much a civil contract based on property and propagation. And considering the prevalence of divorce in today's society and its emphasis on the 'fair' distribution of familial property and the ensuring child support, marriage still is basically a civil contract.
Personally, I don't feel at all threatened by same-sex marriage. I DO feel threatened by the so-called Christians who want to impose their narrow-minded interpretation of God's Will on everyone , regardless of race, religion or creed, by explicitly excluding a significant portion of the population from enjoying a long-term sexual and emotional relationship simply because they desire to do so with an individual of the same gender, and have such recognized legally by their respective state's civil government. Not everyone in this country is a Christian, or comes from a Western European Judeo-Christian cultural background.
Try reading and LIVING the Amendments, folks!
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Date: 2008-10-30 11:57 pm (UTC)If people feel that a homosexual marriage threatens their marriage, their marriage must have been in a lot of trouble up until then.
And that's my two cents. ♥