Land of the free. That’s an important statement. American ideas about freedom are exported around the world, for better or for worse. Our silly debate about whether gay people should be allowed to marry makes us all look like morons, in my opinion.
I realize that most of the people who read this blog will probably disagree with me, but it is my personal belief that adults should be treated like adults, and that government should try to stay as far out of any legal contracts between adults as possible, until there is a dispute and the courts need to get involved. Frankly, the God I believe doesn’t want me to poke my nose into other people’s business unless they represent some sort of threat to me. Gay people are pretty low on that list. In fact, the gay people I know are generally very friendly although they tend to see themselves as persecuted, which is something that they have in common with early Christians, I would imagine.
There is an entry on the whole ongoing debate over gay marriage at Hammer of Truth that I think is worth your time.
Allowing gay people to marry represents no threat heterosexual couples whatsoever. If it goes against your beliefs, then you have every right as a private citizen to proselytize up to the the tolerance level of your neighbors and local community. You are more than welcome not to practice lifestyles you disagree with, just as you don’t have to eat food you dislike. And that’s about as far as your right to discriminate against others should go, from where I stand.
America is a nation of ideas. One of the best ideas I’ve heard in America is that no one group gets to decide what God wants for the rest of us. Too bad many so-called Christians are hypocrites when it comes to forcibly inflicting their ideas about morality on others when they would fight tooth and nail if someone tried to do the same thing to them.
Perhaps we should change the moniker to Land of the Free Discriminatory Heteros.