Gay Marriages

A topic that has rallied the nation's voters this fall has been the topic of Gay Marriage. And of course I have a few things to say about it. For every culture and every person, marriage has different connotations, but I think , for this discussion, we can all agree that a marriage is "a monogomous agreement between two people". Simple, yet defining enough for now.

First of all, to those that say homosexuals getting married violates the sanctity of their marriage, I say this. If two people that love each other in this day and age threatens your marriage in any way, maybe your mariage has more problems than you realize.

Second of all, I don't think most people are realizing WHY they are against gay marriage. So, I'm going to explain why the religious groups have demonized this, and perhaps open the eyes of some that are so opposed to it. For years, the religious groups portrayed homosexual men as predators of young men and boys, recruiting at the local YMCA, and in Boy Scout meetings. Being able to point out young bachelors as homosexual and promiscuous allowed the Church to place the blame for the outset of AIDS and a growing spread of pornography squarely on the gay community. When it was found that AIDS wasn't a completely homosexual disease, the Church went on a huge smear campaign, blaming gays and adding bisexuals to the mix as the catalyst that allowed the crossover of AIDS to the straight community. And it was easy to do. Playing upon fears of death from AIDS, most Churches and several teleevangelists were able to rake in huge sums of money to support an anti-pornography rally here and a anti gay rally there. In spite of all of that, the gay and lesbian community rallied, fighting for recognition and rights previously denied them by the "main-stream". Then came the question of marriage between homosexuals and the Church went ballistic. The reason? Simple. If gays are monogomous, they they aren't out recruiting and corrupting our youth. If they aren't out "spreading their immoral ways", then the Church cannot lay blame on the gay community. And without a scapegoat, the Church has to look inward. And that would lead to a mass exodus (fittingly) of members from the Church, which is lost revenue in the form of lost Tithers.
Now nevermind that Catholic priests molest boys more often than girls. Nevermind that most televangelists are embezzlers and crooks. Nevermind that their lead figure, Jesus, surrounded himself with prostitutes and fishermen, healed the sick and infirm and espoused love for everyone. Focus instead upon the fact that the Church, the Christians, are denying two people that love one another access to an institution that they, the Christians, created. In effect, those that worship Jesus Christ are denying the neighbors they are supposed to love, a symbol of their love by entering a monogomous relationship. Allowing the argument that homosexuals marrying cheapens the meaning of marriage is simply untrue. In California, a woman married her house, and one lady married her cat. Each and every day someone marries to stay in this country, and the divorce rate is the highest it has ever been. We have "preachers" that are on their fourth or fifth marriage. So, let's ask who is really cheapening marriage ; it's the ones that have been allowed to marry, without obstruction and without fighting for the right to.

Third, if allowed to marry now, after such a long and arduous battle, do you think that gays and lesbians are going to enter such a union as lightly as most young people do? No, having to fight for the right will make entering into such a covenant more meaningful, more poignant. The very ideals that most people want when they marry, but never think about, would be more evident by those that had to fight for every inch of ground to be allowed to marry. And who are Christians to define love? If allowed to define marriage, the Chruch's next logical step is to define love, the next step after that will be to prescribe and regulate the sexual behavior of the public at large.

We are not cheapening the meaning of marriage by allowing gays to marry. We are broadening the meaning of monogomous love. And isn't that what Jesus taught? Love, for everyone.