Gay Marriage
I just read this reply in re to the Ellen interview with Oprah and I think it really states a correct view on this subject. What do you all think?
I think gays should be at liberty to marry the same as non-gays are, as expressed by the phrase "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
Marriage is the root of family, meaning one's own family and not the one we are all born into as children, and belonging to one's own family is something just about everybody yearns for with a hunger even stronger than that for sex or for food.
To be denied family is a cruel heartbreak, one that cannot be appreciated by those who have the liberty to marry as they see fit, who seem oblivious to the pain this inflicts day after day by making impossible the joy of family.
In marriage one belongs to another, and has that one belong to you, and with the blessing of children one finds was is the root joy of life in this world, and at times many of its heartaches. This is a great treasure beyond compare.
If that family happens to be Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, then it's not my business nor anybody else's business that it is so, and it's entirely their business and should be recognized by government as such, as government is the servant and not the master of the people of these United States.
I confess a certain discomfort with homosexuality based on some of the teachings of my particular faith. This is not uncommon, certainly in my age group, but at the same time it seems to me, as a citizen of a great republic governed by a worthy constitution where church and state do not mix, that it is grotesquely unfair and tyrannical to deny the joy of family to someone based on their sexual orientation, which is not a matter of choice but rather something that one seems to be born with and grows into.
This is the United States of America. Home of the brave and land of the free. Let us be brave and free ourselves of the hypocrisy of forcing gay couples to live in sin, without the benefits granted through government to non-gay couples, as if they were less than human and not full citizens. It is not a matter of religion, unless some would have us adopt a state religion, which corrupts both the state and religion, and turns its citizens into unhappy hypocrites. It is a matter of living as free citizens, sovereign in our private lives, under the law.
I think gays should be at liberty to marry the same as non-gays are, as expressed by the phrase "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
Marriage is the root of family, meaning one's own family and not the one we are all born into as children, and belonging to one's own family is something just about everybody yearns for with a hunger even stronger than that for sex or for food.
To be denied family is a cruel heartbreak, one that cannot be appreciated by those who have the liberty to marry as they see fit, who seem oblivious to the pain this inflicts day after day by making impossible the joy of family.
In marriage one belongs to another, and has that one belong to you, and with the blessing of children one finds was is the root joy of life in this world, and at times many of its heartaches. This is a great treasure beyond compare.
If that family happens to be Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, then it's not my business nor anybody else's business that it is so, and it's entirely their business and should be recognized by government as such, as government is the servant and not the master of the people of these United States.
I confess a certain discomfort with homosexuality based on some of the teachings of my particular faith. This is not uncommon, certainly in my age group, but at the same time it seems to me, as a citizen of a great republic governed by a worthy constitution where church and state do not mix, that it is grotesquely unfair and tyrannical to deny the joy of family to someone based on their sexual orientation, which is not a matter of choice but rather something that one seems to be born with and grows into.
This is the United States of America. Home of the brave and land of the free. Let us be brave and free ourselves of the hypocrisy of forcing gay couples to live in sin, without the benefits granted through government to non-gay couples, as if they were less than human and not full citizens. It is not a matter of religion, unless some would have us adopt a state religion, which corrupts both the state and religion, and turns its citizens into unhappy hypocrites. It is a matter of living as free citizens, sovereign in our private lives, under the law.
