Freedom to Marry

Freedom to Marry

One year ago next month, a letter was circulating to build a grassroots effort to defend marriage in America.  Below is an excerpt from the letter as well as my response:

To win this marriage battle, it is critical that grassroots Americans from across the nation rise up against special interest groups who have arrogantly and openly declared their plans to use the federal court to destroy marriage and silence the voice of the people.

By adding to our grassroots ranks we are building critical muscle mass that is vital as we continue building support on Capitol Hill. AFM has told us that this battle will ultimately be won at the grassroots level--when Americans stand up and demand that AFM's Marriage Protection Amendment become law for the land.

Please forward this message to 15-25 of your friends and family. Let them know the severity of the situation and the need to have them add their name to our "Save Marriage" petition.

Thank you for taking immediate action. Your commitment and support of marriage is vital to our success and victory!

Steve Elliott, President of Grassfire.org
Alliance and Partner with Alliance For Marriage

My Responce

Re: Michigan Marriage Law under attack

Why is everything always battles, battle cries, victories, defeats, and destruction?
Nobody is attacking marriage, and nobody is trying to destroy marriage.  This is a deceitful attempt to rally people into thinking that marriage itself is under attack.  It is not.

This is about same sex marriage and gay rights........everybody has their panties in a wad and are afraid that somehow if gays are allowed to be legally married, then marriage itself will be destroyed.

Michigan banned same sex marriage by a majority vote of the people in the last election......there of course is a movement to try to overturn that in the courts, as well as keep the issue on the ballot for upcoming elections.

My opinion:  if you want to ban same sex marriage, then you should also ban (and make illegal)  divorce, adulterous affairs, having children outside of wedlock, sex before marriage, getting married before the age of 22, Harry Potter, Star Wars, 9 1/2 weeks, Marilyn Manson, the Purple Teletubby, Spongebob, the Smurfs, shopping malls, football, bars, hair salons, and day spas.

Matter of fact, out of everything I just listed, I would say that same sex marriage (gay marriage) is the least harmful to marriage itself.

Not to mention that gays want the privelege of being recognized by the state as having committed themselves to each other as life partners in a monogamous, loving relationship.  How does that hurt marriage?

One more thing.........it might be time to start praying for people who call themselves christians, but forward this garbage around town and try to stir up the kind of trouble that gives all of us a bad name amongst our gay friends. 

How can we truly be the light of Christ when we are too busy calling people to prayer over whether or not gays should be allowed to be married (all in the name of destroying marriage).
 

How will we be allowed to love people when they don't let us near them because they think we are one of those
"gay hating christians"

Jesus would have loved.

James

Comments

[sofajr]

Ugh! Why can't gays just make up something new, like Gayrriage. Marriage is defined as a man and a woman, they don't fit the definition, I'm not being a hater, but really they should just get the rights they want under a new name. Duh.

[Wayne]

James,
Thanks for posting on this subject. I agree with you so much that stuff like this is perpetuated by fear and that the homosexual community were and still are people that Jesus loves dearly. I personally wish the Church would just be the Church and stop confusing political power with spiritual revival. Whoever the state Chooses to join together let them. Conservative churches do not have to support gay marriage but they do have to spend a hell of a lot more time loving people of homosexual orientation. If you are really bored and want to read more on the issue of homosexuality and two very different (yet I believe both loving) approaches to the issue here are links to two different essays from a reformed perspective: 1) Like the wideness of the Sea – Lewis Smedes (http://www.soulforce.org/article/638)
and 2)Where do we go from here? - by yours truly (http://commonblue.wordpress.com/papers/) Smedes was more of the open and affirming type when it comes to monogamous gay relationships. I take a different approach but I think both argue we must do all we can to love people of homosexual orientation. If you read them let me know what you think.
Shalom,
Wayne