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February 14, 2004
A Day for Family
Nothing makes me happier than seeing so many people lining up to reaffirm the importance of marriage and family on Valentine's Day. The people who want to have these marriages annulled should think long and hard about whether they want on their consciences the destruction of family and love, and the weakening of respect for the sanctity of marriage that they appear to be demanding. When the government can decide to annul one kind of marriage, it can decide to annul them all.
[added later...]
Think that's not too terrifying? Well, the government keeps telling us that the reason why heterosexual marriage is so important is that it is the breeding ground of children. If the government granted the right to marry only to fertile adults who planned to have children, then a large number of marriages could be annulled, including those of parents who are past their childbearing years, or adults like myself who are unable to have children. If we decide that marital fidelity is important -- and it is, to the government, because infidelity is grounds for divorce -- then marriages of partners who cheat can be summarily annulled, whether the parties concerned wished to work out the problem or not. If we decide that marriage is God-given, and a privilege of living a faithful Christian life, then marriages of non-Christians or the doubting can be annulled at the government's will. You may think these are all unlikely to happen, but they have happened before in history, and nothing is preventing them from happening again.
The sad truth is that most people who oppose the freedom to marry oppose it because they're afraid of gay people. Afraid to live by Jesus's commandment to love one another as he loved us. Afraid that somehow, if gay people could marry, it might not be so hard to be gay, and fewer gay people who voluntarily closet themselves. And then we'd all have to think about our sexuality and capacity for love, rather than letting other people tell us what is right.
God gave us free will, and it is a sin to ignore that gift and let other people tell us what is right and what is wrong. When Judgement Day comes, you will be judged by the moral choices you made, not by how obedient you were to an earthly authority. I wish the "righteous" would think about that when they pray to God to hurt people whose only sin is love.
OK, enough fire and brimstone for the day.
Posted by ayse on 02/14/04 at 9:37 PM
Sing it sister!