Um wow. That is a slippery slope if I have ever seen one.
I agree that churches should have the right to marry whoever they want to marry. However, there are many ways to get married aside from in churches, and the state should not be able to dictate who can and cannot get married.
Well, that was my attempt to take this Jason person’s sentiment seriously. “Poisoned by occultic beliefs”? You really are an idiot.
I’m amused that they have the face of “V”, but then I remember what Guy Fawkes was REALLY trying to do, and it seems appropriate.
And yeah…church weddings are just ONE option for getting married. I think it’s interesting that all people assume that ALL people entering into a non-hetero marriage (cause not everyone who is not hetero is “gay”…just a reminder) is Christian. What about pagans, satanists (the real kind, not movie satanists), atheists, jewish, muslim, hindu, buddhist…
Yeah…maybe we (the non-hetero community) should keep trying to separate this debate form religion so as not to erase the non-Christian non-hetero people who want to get married.
As an added note, and something that seems to get overlooked…
Marriage pre-dates Christianity. It is a custom that stretches back (at least) almost as far as recorded history. The Greeks did it. The Romans did it. It was done throughout the Heathen world. I don’t know a whole lot about Sumerian culture, but I bet they had marriage too (A quick googling shows that they did). Marriage has been happening in India and China and Japan and Java and countless other cultures since long before any of the Abrahamic religions found their way to them.
So, can we please stop talking about marriage in terms of the “purity of the Christian faith”? You don’t have some kind of monopoly on marriage. There are Jews and Buddhists and Muslims and Bahá’í and Heathens in the United States that perform marriage ceremonies too.
Christians: marriage doesn’t belong to you. It belongs to all of us. Get over yourselves and get some damn perspective.
