I wanted to comment on the Supreme Court's Decision on Friday. Today something I read in an article linked to an article linked to an article linked to facebook set me off. I wrote something in Facebook and have decided that is exactly all I need to say so I am posting my status here as well..
Freedom of religion grants us all the right to believe what we choose to believe, provided that when we act on it, it harms no one.(so if I believe in something like oh... I don't know.. serial killing being the way I will get to Heaven... that is not so good because acting on that belief will cause harm.. get my point?) So that means that though I am ecstatic, over the moon, that marriage includes all couples of consenting age who love each other now, I do not think that we need to condemn those who do not share the happiness over it. I think its about the right to choose who to marry.... If you do not believe in homosexuality, then that's fine, you can marry someone who is a different gender. If you do, then now you can choose to marry someone who is the same gender. If you do not believe people of color should marry people who are white, then by all means find a soul mate who has the same colored skin as you do. If you do not believe someone of one religion should marry outside of that religion, then go ahead and marry within your religion. We can all do that now. How wonderful is that? I think this bashing of each other because one believes differently needs to stop. My choice in marriage partners should not hurt anyone else. I just happened to have chosen a heterosexual relationship. But if I didn't, there is no reason that it would hurt anyone else. People can choose to be offended, but that's just fine. They can also choose not to be and to just go on living their own lives, worrying about their own stuff. I saw an article where churches and clergy in Canada have become under attack now because they won't perform marriages for people who, according to the clergyman's religion, are sinning. Well, then people, don't sue the clergy for following what he believes, for pete's sake, just find someone else to perform the ceremony. I know of heterosexual couples who were refused marriage rites by some clergy because they were living together. They didn't sue, they just found someone else who would marry them. I wouldn't even want to be married by someone who believes my significant other and I are sinning. I don't want to belong to a church that condemns my lifestyle. It's not a reason to take them to court because of it. Or to badmouth them or anything else. Now that the door has been opened for marriage equality and it is one more step toward human equality, please, I beg of you my LGBTQ friends, do not fall into the same category as people you have been fighting against, those think that their beliefs are the only way, and that everyone should have the same beliefs. This supreme court decision is not an invitation to start bashing others who believe differently. I hope one day we can all live together with total acceptance of the differences that make us all unique. To quote John Lennon, "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one." Ok.. getting off my soapbox.
Have a great day.
Shannon
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