Skip to main content

Is America ready for gay marriage?

I think America is. While perhaps an individual might feel their religion is being "spat upon" by the idea, that individual must remember their beliefs do not reflect every persons. What if someone's religion said that only gay people should be married while straight people must settle for civil unions? Society certainly would not allow that religion some/any sway with established law, but when gay marriage comes up Christianity seems to have this sway. While Christianity is a completely valid belief system which I respect immensely (and am often envious of due to the spiritual fulfillment practicing Christians seem to enjoy), the first amendment guarantees the right to freedom of religion and the establishment clause says the government can not make a law aiding the establishment (or the disestablishment) of any religion, which would include establishing a law against homosexuals. I understand the counterargument to this, "church's should not be forced to marry two individuals that the church does not want to", but I assure any individuals of this persuasion the gay community does not want to be married by people who do not want to marry two gay people. The gay community could turn to others without violating the sanctity of a Christian marriage, courthouses have the ability to marry two individuals, so with the separation of church and state our forefathers established should this option really be closed to homosexuals? At the very least, civil unions could (in special cases such as two gay individuals wanting to be joined) have the same legally binding effects upon the individuals joined as a traditional marriage. How can society truly deny someone their happiness? 

 "These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a f*** about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not? We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of. They go on and on with all this bulls*** about 'sanctity'-- don't give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want" ~ Clint Eastwood 

 "As a Baptist Minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way" ~ Rev. Al Sharpton 
"If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form" ~Will Smith
 ^I love you Will Smith~ Me
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Why some Evolutionists are wrong... sort of....

In an evolution's theory on creation man evolved from other species which evolved from other species and so on and so forth... From a scientific view on creation life started in oceans and expanded to land, so lets go back billions of years to just before lifeforms were about to expand to land. Now lets assume there is an Anthropologist in this prehistoric time period who records various cultures creation myths.... he/she is on land and looks for any life on land but fails to find it, but sees what he/she perceives to be a blob in the water so he/she swims to this blob to see if the blob can convey it's cultures creation myth. The anthropologist begins to question this creature the first question being what their cultures creation myth is and the blob says there is no such creation myth, what he knows as creation is fact, the anthropologist says oh yes of course please tell me about it. The blob tells the anthropologist of the colliding planets and the development of single cel
Post a Comment
Read more

The importance of networking

Have you ever gotten a job through another person? Think back to that experience and compare it to an experience in which you were not referred by another person. Ask your self a couple questions. Did you get the job in both situations? In which situation was the interview process easier? In which situation did you feel more comfortable? Which job was better?  While you mull those questions over. Let me discuss my employment experiences with you. My first job was at a Pizza Hut, no friend recommended me to the job, the store just desperately needed delivery drivers [delivery driving has a low retention rate as I'm sure you can imagine]. The delivery driving job paid minimum wage unless you were out on delivery on which it paid half minimum wage [plus tips] and was part-time work.  My second job was as a Peer Tutor at Gordon [State] College. I got the job, because I failed my English 1101 class. The class was at 7:00 a.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and I was tired from
Post a Comment
Read more

Supreme Court cases everyone should know when discussing today's most pertinent issues.

             Let's start off with something that has slipped away as completely accepted in this day and age due to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on it just to show the colossal impact on society such decisions make.  Brown V. Board of Education (1954)~ Segregation of races in schools is inherently unequal and in violation of equal protection clause of the 14th amendment . Can any of my fellow Americans even imagine what this day and age would be like without this court case? When just 58 years before Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)  had said segregation is allowed when accommodations were separate as well as equal. White, let's call them supremacists, found a way around this "accommodations must be equal" clause of the ruling, by passing off second-hand textbooks and teachers with lower pass rates on to schools specifically geared toward teaching Black Americans.                Now, how about something a little more controversial, abortion. In Roe V. Wade   (1973)
Post a Comment
Read more