What is the key issue at stake with marriage equality? It's love, and do unto others as you want others to do unto you. And the all encompassing love of God. Using religion in this is ludicrous, since the Bible clearly states that man is created in his image. And that really, as a nation, we need to move past using the Bible as a valid source of fact in political issues. Because the Bible isn't scientific or even solid in its arguing. It isn't based on facts. It's based on beliefs. And beliefs are not objective, but subjective.
And it's about dragging the US out of the backwards movements that refuses to release its hold and let this country truly step out into the twenty-first century.
We give you
bitchesofbritin's lecture on civil rights, biblical interpretation and modern day Pharisees, with illustrations of Love, Family, Friendship, Partnership and Marriage.
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
( Because either passively or aggressively, right now, we all need to stand up and fight, in whatever capacity we can. Not with hate, but with truth, with understanding and most importantly, love. )