I am very pleased with today’s ruling overturning California’s Proposition 8. All of God’s children are equal in God’s eyes, and today Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker affirmed once again that all Californian families share equal protection under the law.
The Episcopal Church has reached resolution on the issue of full civil rights for lesbian and gay persons and, speaking for myself as a bishop and person of faith and as a representative of the Episcopal Church, I am gladdened whenever discrimination is rejected and fundamental rights are acknowledged as equal rights.
Read it all.
TEC theology summary – God is love, therefore, Love (in all its varied and diverse forms) is God. QED.
See, you didn’t really need to go to seminary for anything other than to learn how to put on those fancy duds and swing that censer. 🙂
God is Love, and love is Godly.
But love and sex are 2 different things.
Holy Scripture teaches that David loved Jonathan. But there’s absolutely nothing there about their being in a sexual relationship. Indeed, no man who truly loves another man would have sex with him. That would be mutually defiling sexual immorality.
here’s what the judge wrote (sadly in tune with the ECUSA ruling class):
It’s “beyond debate†that gay marriage “has at least a neutral, if not a positive, effect on marriage.†It is “beyond any doubt that parents’ genders are irrelevant to children’s developmental outcomes.â€
All of that has been settled, and if you don’t believe it, well, Judge Walker said so. He describes traditional marriage as “an artifact of a time when the genders were seen as having distinct roles in society and marriage.â€