I was just reading a newsstory on same sex marriage in Alabama. http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2015/All-marriages-halted-in-1-of-Alabama-s-largest-cities-after-state-high-court-bans-gay-weddings/id-9502a1bfd539498da39c15ebaef5f1c1
I find it fascinating in these types of articles how there are individuals who believe that somehow same sex marriages are a threat to American families. Homosexuality is not a contagious disease. It's not like a family with two moms or a family with two dads is going to start roaming neighborhoods physically ripping other families apart. Same sex marriage, to me, is about giving all the people in our society the same rights.
To pull a quote from the article from Alabama Elmore County Probate Judge John Enslen, "Gay marriage could never be equal to straight marriage because of simple human anatomy.". I chose this quote because I believe it gets straight to the root of the problem. We humans fear that which we don't understand. I believe that the average heterosexual probably thinks, "Why would someone be attracted to the same sex? How could someone be attracted to someone of the same sex?" We don't understand. 'That' kind of sex freaks us out. But, at the end of the day, a marriage, a lifelong partnership, is so much more then sex. It's helping each other through daily life. It's sharing the grocery shopping and the housework. It's paying the bills together. It's watching a fun movie on the sofa after a long day. It's dreaming about the future together. It's about spending the last moments of life on this earth together. What a sad definition of marriage if it's all about the sex.
Peace.
I find it fascinating in these types of articles how there are individuals who believe that somehow same sex marriages are a threat to American families. Homosexuality is not a contagious disease. It's not like a family with two moms or a family with two dads is going to start roaming neighborhoods physically ripping other families apart. Same sex marriage, to me, is about giving all the people in our society the same rights.
To pull a quote from the article from Alabama Elmore County Probate Judge John Enslen, "Gay marriage could never be equal to straight marriage because of simple human anatomy.". I chose this quote because I believe it gets straight to the root of the problem. We humans fear that which we don't understand. I believe that the average heterosexual probably thinks, "Why would someone be attracted to the same sex? How could someone be attracted to someone of the same sex?" We don't understand. 'That' kind of sex freaks us out. But, at the end of the day, a marriage, a lifelong partnership, is so much more then sex. It's helping each other through daily life. It's sharing the grocery shopping and the housework. It's paying the bills together. It's watching a fun movie on the sofa after a long day. It's dreaming about the future together. It's about spending the last moments of life on this earth together. What a sad definition of marriage if it's all about the sex.
Peace.
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