If it makes you feel better? One of the more recent ones I found.
Opposition to gay marriage is one of the last remaining relics of our discriminatory past that I dearly wish to see abandoned. There simply are no legal or traditional grounds for denying equal services to this segment of our population any longer. Our founding fathers were not all Christians, and they deliberately did not establish a Christian nation. The Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, nor any documents or letters written by any of the founders or framers should lead anyone to believe that. Why this ridiculous defense for "traditional marriage" gets continually brought up, I truly don't know. Even if any of these documents did reference the new US of A as a Christian nation, it could never establish *which* Christian nation it should be. Methodist? Catholic? Presbyterian? Greek Orthodox? The fact of the matter is, many Christians believe homosexuality to be a sin of the past, like so many others that were recognized as archaic and irrelevant and abandoned shortly after the coming and passing of Christ. Their views and interpretations are worth no less than any other Christian's, and the government should establish no laws that would ignore them in favor of others.
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Date: 2010-07-09 01:51 am (UTC)Opposition to gay marriage is one of the last remaining relics of our discriminatory past that I dearly wish to see abandoned. There simply are no legal or traditional grounds for denying equal services to this segment of our population any longer. Our founding fathers were not all Christians, and they deliberately did not establish a Christian nation. The Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, nor any documents or letters written by any of the founders or framers should lead anyone to believe that. Why this ridiculous defense for "traditional marriage" gets continually brought up, I truly don't know. Even if any of these documents did reference the new US of A as a Christian nation, it could never establish *which* Christian nation it should be. Methodist? Catholic? Presbyterian? Greek Orthodox? The fact of the matter is, many Christians believe homosexuality to be a sin of the past, like so many others that were recognized as archaic and irrelevant and abandoned shortly after the coming and passing of Christ. Their views and interpretations are worth no less than any other Christian's, and the government should establish no laws that would ignore them in favor of others.