In response to this thread: http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...-a-gay-wedding
You don't want to attend a "gay wedding." That's fine. I personally hate the term "gay wedding." I find the term to be just as offensive as the term "mixed-race wedding," and I view those who refuse to attend on some religious principle to be just as misguided as those who, also claiming religious justification, refuse to attend "mixed-race" weddings.
I much prefer the phrase "wedding." Or "marriage." Because it's not a "gay marriage," it's just ... marriage.
Like it or not, marriage equality will be the law of the land in the US. Churches will not have to perform marriages that go against their faith. The Civil Rights acts that prevent discrimination in retail, housing, transport, and other areas of commerce will eventually be expanded to include sexual orientation and sexual identity.
And despite the straw-man objections of some, "gay marriage" will not lead to legalized pedophilia or to people marrying animals. It may very well lead to polygamy ... which I'm quite fine with.
And the world will not come to an end. Nor will America come to and end because of it.
No matter how that might disappoint some.
You don't want to attend a "gay wedding." That's fine. I personally hate the term "gay wedding." I find the term to be just as offensive as the term "mixed-race wedding," and I view those who refuse to attend on some religious principle to be just as misguided as those who, also claiming religious justification, refuse to attend "mixed-race" weddings.
I much prefer the phrase "wedding." Or "marriage." Because it's not a "gay marriage," it's just ... marriage.
Like it or not, marriage equality will be the law of the land in the US. Churches will not have to perform marriages that go against their faith. The Civil Rights acts that prevent discrimination in retail, housing, transport, and other areas of commerce will eventually be expanded to include sexual orientation and sexual identity.
And despite the straw-man objections of some, "gay marriage" will not lead to legalized pedophilia or to people marrying animals. It may very well lead to polygamy ... which I'm quite fine with.
And the world will not come to an end. Nor will America come to and end because of it.
No matter how that might disappoint some.
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