Congratulations Mike and Alan.
I’ve just seen on BBC News that it seems to be official; California is allowing Gay marriages and will allow citizens from other states to get married there. My friends Mike and Alan are planning a trip there in September and hope to be married there.
There are plenty of people out there who would deny these two wonderful people the chance to legally be together. They would tell you that it is immoral and corrupts the sanctity of marriage.
To those people, I say that love, real and pure love, is not immoral. How can it be immoral to want what’s best for another, to want to help and take care of another. The simple answer is that it isn’t. The Christian doctrine that most of they would tout has no explicit prohibition on homosexuality, because according to the Gospel, the Old Testament (with the prohibition on male homosexuality… oddly enough not female homosexuality) which contained the law, was thrown out for the new law, chiefly love God, love each other. Jesus never said anything about homosexuality good or bad. In fact, the only mention in the New Testament about homosexuality is fairly veiled in some aspects, and is attributed to Paul, who never even knew Jesus or the disciples/apostles till 40 or so years later when he had his “vision.”
As for the whole corruption of marriage… well, I’m married… I do have a problem with lowering the standards and passing students because it might depreciate my degrees, but I don’t feel that two homosexual people who love each other depreciates my marriage… for one thing… it’s my marriage… for another, marriage has already been depreciated by celebrities… and other heterosexual freaks on leashes with their open marriages and, let’s just face it… people who get married because the sex is good and he/she looks hot in Levi’s, or has tons of money to buy said spouse all kinds of goodies.
Finally… there’s the old comedy gold… Why not let homosexuals marry… why should they be any less miserable than the rest of us. ;)
