Everyone should see this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnHyy8gkNEE&fmt=18
The constitution of the United States clearly separates politics from religion. Therefore, all religions need to stay out of Hawaii—and national—politics. I would never think to enforce the lifestyle I lead engendered by my beliefs on you or your family. Therefore, I find it offensive when any church—and these days, although many of my friends are Mormons, I’m specifically talking about the Mormons—tries to tell me how I have to live.
More after the jump…
Take this as an example: http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog the “reasoning” presented on KITV this morning, through several “man on the street” type interviews inticated that many of Hawaii’s public felt that “the union is one man and one woman”. Aside from the poor grammar (yes, I know mine isn’t stellar!), there is no actual logic or reasoning in this statement. What union? Whose union?
Not mine.
In a recent poll, 88.7% of opponents to same-sex unions gave religiously-based arguments against those types of unions.
A few years ago, I criticized Hawaii State Rep. Stonebraker for mixing religion and homophobia with his politics because of his ridiculously over-the-top anti-gay policies and anti-same-sex union rants in the Honolulu Advertiser. What I got was a 15 minute harangue on the phone full of faulty logic and religious “hell and damnation” rhetoric. The only thing that he said which made any sense at all was, “this is the will of the people, they voted against it.” My reply to this was, “no it wasn’t, your church spent millions on a slur campaign telling the public that marriage was being threatened because of this bill.”
People, this does not threaten marriage. Get over it. What does threaten marriage, however, is the 50% divorce rate we’re still facing as a nation. What does threaten marriage, and its “sanctity” are reality shows where a woman can pick a guy to marry based on a series of 10 minute dates and a $500K jackpot. Your neighbors Adam and Dane getting married is not that threat.
Whether you’re straight or gay (or whatever), I urge you to support same-sex unions as quickly as possible. This is one of the ways we can guarantee a happier, wealthier America for you and me. It is one of the last bastions of racist, hateful thinking to oppose these unions, and I urge you to seriously consider your viewpoints when voting time comes again, and try to understand those people whose rights are being trampled.
Whenever somebody else’s rights are at stake, I try to take a minute or two to think about why they want/need that right; I try to think about who they are as people, and what it is about them that makes them less deserving of something that I have. I think about this when I go to the voting booth, about the women, the men, the disabled, the gifted/talented, the “retarded”, the economically challened, the poor, and you should too.
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