I was totally going to blog yesterday; I had even started a post as of around 4:40.  But then Sam came home and we decided to go on a bike ride and time was of the essence, since it gets dark here at like, 6:15.  So I promptly up and left the entry, got back and decided it wasn't working for me, and abandoned the post and the blog.  In general.  While I sewed.  (If you ever wonder what it is I'm doing while at home at night, the answer probably involves sewing, water, and EL Fudge cookies.  Also, football on Sundays, Mondays and coming up soon, select Thursdays and Saturdays.  Sewing.  I'm sewing sewing sewing.  Sewing so that at Xmas I have something to show the gparents.)

But I was going to post about this yesterday.  I'm not sure exactly what I was going to say about it, except that it pretty much mirrors how I feel about the issue.  If you didn't look at the link, the gist is that this guy can't understand--as in, literally cannot understand--the arguments against gay marriage.  I don't know if I've talked about that before in this space, but I feel EXACTLY the same way.  I literally cannot intellectually grasp the arguments against gay marriage.  Other things I can at least grudgingly see the logic of, but this, I just don't get.  I don't understand at all this mean-spirited wish to deny people who are different something so basic.  It's not like some of the other things we argue about, things that actually cost someone something, whether it be life or health insurance or tax money.  Gay marriage has exactly ZERO effect on the people who oppose it so violently.  (And in fact, I'm inclined to argue that economically, it can actually help us, as marriage is big money.  There is a marriage industry, after all.)  Either way, the reasons people don't want it are, I would hazard a guess, 99% religious in nature, and that's even more hard to understand.  The government isn't religious, or rather, shouldn't be; gay citizens should be able to be married just like their fellow citizens.  Maybe not in a church, but in a courthouse, where the law is NOT the law of God, but the law of man.

So anyway.  Yeah.

Comments

[Mavis]

This article is awesomely terrific. He totally nails it, pinpoints exactly what I've thought. I've always been befuddled on why people are against gay marriage when you remove the religious aspect. Sure, if those are your religious beliefs, fine, you have a right to believe that. But there's a separation of church and state for a reason, so let's leave religious doctrine and thoughts out of it.

[M]

I agree with Mavis - the article was point on. FYI, the main body of the church I attend has an official position that until the membership votes to allow gay marriage within the church, the church will continue to offer only heterosexual marriage. (How about that - an open mind for considering the possibility?!) However, the church also officially agrees that civil unions are not a church issue. And in 2006, the church formally removed a pastor without pay for refusing to allow a homosexual to become a member of a church in Virginia. Right on for a church that doesn't try to live in the dark ages.