Finally, I'm not happy with it. Being in a normal marriage, with kids, I'm now a minority. I'm also weird. Of course, one of those stigmas has followed me thru life...
A minority? How do you become a "minority" when same sex marriage is legalized?
Give it time. Right now with marriage they will have access to everything traditional marriage does. Oh wait...under civil unions they would have as well. My bad.
Seriously tho, give it time, and they will have access to more things than a traditional marriage will. There is also the schools teaching our kids its ok to be different...and ok to marry that cute guy or girl (depending on gender of like sex). Being gay/being a gay couple is becoming a norm...in a few years, due to intollerance, being in a traditional marriage won't be norm. It will be the weird thing.
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That wasn't the point. To be gay in the 50s wss weird, give it 15-20 years and to be straight will be weird. Thankfully, I'm weird already, and embrace that fact. My kids are learning to embrace it too...for themselves
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Yeah, how horrible. To let kids know it's okay to be different...
There is a distinct difference between "different" due to an obvious physical trait or impairment or "different" because of skin color or "different" because of gender...those differences we have no control over...but "different" because of personal choices???
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Posted on: May 19 2013,8:27 pm
I'd recommend the documentary For The Bible Tells Me So, available to watch on youtube or Netflix ondemand. A number of pastors, theologians, families, and public figures are interviewed: Richard Gephardt, Desmond Tutu, Bishop Gene Robinson, Rev. Peter Gomes, etc. Several clips of evangelists Jimmy Swaggart, Franklin Graham, and author Dr. James Dobson from "Focus on the Family".
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But the Bible tells me so. It tells me to hate gays with all my heart. It tells me to incarcerate medical marijuana users. The Bible directs my hatred. It tells me who to hate. Well, not really the Bible but those who interpret it for me like my minister, he knows who to hate. And if I believe in Jesus I must hate them too. If they tell me to hate Mexicans I will go down that road too. I'm a nobody and I need the clergy to direct and control my hatred.
Actually, you are to love the person but hate the sin. This whole thing is a personal choice. Let's keep it that way. No extra anything. It is yours', own it, keep it.
Actually, you are to love the person but hate the sin. This whole thing is a personal choice. Let's keep it that way. No extra anything. It is yours', own it, keep it.
Well said! But...take for example Brittany Griner the Baylor basketball phenom who recently "came out" to say she was gay. Who cares. Do heterosexuals announce via press conferences their sexual choice? Why the " hi I'm gay"!! Why is everything about some gays so " in your face".
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