So this is obviously a little more heavy than Facebook but I just got through watching something on the news about gay marriage and I got to thinking. I am going to be perfectly honest in saying I just do not understand peoples issue with gay marriage. I truly do not understand. We as an American society treat marriage like it is garbage. Getting married is not the same as it used to be and being married does not mean what it used to. Divorce is so commonplace now that it is difficult to find someone not divorced. I was raised catholic (that is a topic for another day) and I understand know that my religion as well as most others do not approve of gay marriage but give me a reason. The only thing I have heard is "it says it in the bible". Okay, religion is a huge hot button with me and I am sure in the coming posts you will come to see that. I will discourage myself from taking that route now but there are several things in the bible that we obvious;y would not apply to today. We do not go out and stone whores for example. You have to be able to adapt and adjust. Use some common sense. And let us be perfectly honest, isn't the entire premise of the bible treating all as you would want to be treated. Love and acceptance for all. I must have missed the part where it said love and forgive everyone except the gay people. Those you can judge. We throw marriage away with last nights leftovers and we have people fighting so so hard to just have some rights....medical, financial....I mean does it even matter why? I have yet to hear why this is so detrimental to our society. Then we have a candidate running for the presidency stating that being gay is next to bestiality. Wow, this person wants to run our country and makes that kind of statement and to be honest, what floored me was that we were not up in arms. We cannot take something that we treat so poorly and talk as though it is so cherished. That isn't how it works. Love people, learn to accept them for who they are. Everyone has something to teach us. If someone loves another person enough to go through all the fight we are putting up, all the ridicule, all the obstacles, who are we to tell them they do not get the same choices we do. I am a firm believer that it is not a choice who we love....what sex, what race, what height, what weight, and so on. Sounds really familiar to me like times from not to long ago when people were judged and treated differently based on something out of their control. Use compassion. Use common sense. Treat the person next to you, no matter their sexual orientation as you would want to be treated. Why should two women making a medical choice have any less rights than a man and a woman. Their love is different?? How? We have so many things that are negative and hard in the world right now. Tough choices and obstacles are placed in front of us as Americans daily. Lets not create more problems that in all honesty are not problems.
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