I have spoken my piece on gay marriage before. It is no mystery where I stand on the issue. I am against gay marriage. I am all for civil unions/domestic partnerships. I have no problem with gay people having the same benefits that heterosexual partners have.
What I do have a problem with is when gay people claim they are being denied a civil right because they want to redefine marriage. Going so far as to say that being denied "marriage" is the same as when blacks were denied the right to marry whites, vote, drink from white fountains, eat in white restaurants, and attend white schools. I don't think so.
First of all ... blacks were denied rights that everyone else had. White men could marry white women. They could vote, drink from fountains, sit in the front of the bus, eat where they wanted, etc. No one had forced them into slavery or made them second-class citizens. The same could not be said for black people.
Second of all ... gay people have the same rights as everyone else. They can work where they want, eat where they want, vote, drink from public fountains, attend the school of their choice, and marry someone of the opposite sex ... just like the rest of us. They can't marry a dog, their sister, someone of the same sex, or three other people at the same time ... just like the rest of us.
So ... it is not civil rights that gay people actually want. They want a special priviledge. They want to marry someone of the same sex. Marriage was created by God and God said marriage is to be between one man and one woman. Not one man and a German Shepard. Not one woman and three men. Not one man and his daughter. Not one woman and another woman.
And, since many people agree that marriage is what God says it is and do not agree with gay people altering the definition of marriage to suit themselves ... many gay people have started accusing those people of hate. They claim they are bigots. They have taken to protesting churches and acting incredibly ugly and threatening violence. Rosanne Barr even went so far as to call blacks who voted for Prop 8 as being ignorant and bigoted.
You would think that if gay people really wanted the same legal protections that married people enjoy ... like the rights of inheritance, authority to make medical decisions, and so on that they would be happy with pursuing civil unions/domestic partnerships. That would give them what they claim they want. They would be legally bound to their partners. They would have to file in court to have their partnerships dissolved just like heterosexuals have to do when they want to divorce their spouse. They would get what they wanted ... or so you would think.
All I can think is that if getting the legal protections they want is not good enough ... if it has to be "marriage" and not a civil union/domestic partnership ... then this really isn't about any type of rights at all. It is about something totally different and if the word "hate" is going to come into it ... I think it should be used where it is really appropriate and that is them hating God for judging their sin. Just like the liar who refuses to turn away from his sin or the adulterer who refuses to turn away from their sin ... they come to hate God and His Law and they reject what is good and right in the eyes of God. They work to justify their sin and find excuse for it. And ... that is what that is ... they want to call it marriage so they can justify themselves and basically spit in God's face. But ... the thing about it is ... even if they get what they want ... it won't change how God sees it. They will still be living in their sin and they will still be accountable for it. No law on earth can change that.
Amen, sister! That is the problem I have with this whole mess. They disrespect what the civil rights movement really was and what African-Americans really had to go through. They have no idea what it means to have their rights denied them.
Good job at articulating the matter in a concise way, Angel. I've tried it. I tend to get bogged down in the minutia.
Some things really aren't as complicated as we try to make them.
God bless!