My own denomination, the Episcopal Church, has had a long and difficult struggle with the issue of same-gender marriage. It is a struggle that I am saddened to say is a dividing force in the worldwide Anglican Communion. However, as sad as that makes me, I am not willing to see us back down from our support for LGBT equality.
Regardless of what my church decides or what any other faith tradition in this country decides, it is long past time for our government to recognize same-gender marriage as a civil right.
Surprise, surprise. Why am I not surprised? First, because this very brief piece of propaganda is by +Jane Dixon, who is as liberal as they come. Second, because it appears in [i]the Washington Post,[/i] a newspaper that’s also as liberal as they come.
Perhaps the only surprising thing is that Dixon makes no attempt whatsoever to present any arguments or evidence in favor of her opinion. She simply takes it as self-evident that gay marriage is a matter of civil rights.
Hmmm. On second thought, that’s not very surprising either, is it? It’s the stand operating assumption of many advocates of the “gay is OK” delusion.
Although I’ve run across this sort of nonsense a thousand times, I still don’t know whether to take such statements as more silly than pathetic, or vice versa. All I know is that they’re both.
David Handy+
[Comment deleted by Elf – Godwin’s Law]
Elves,what’s Godwin’sLaw?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
It cannot be a civil right. Marriage is a spiritual matter, a transformationofboth mind andsoul, and the First Amendment forbids the state from interfering with this relationship. Who can doubt this? Therecan be no such thing as civil marriage; it is an oxymoron. Wnhat is thisconcept sodifficult to grasp? Larry