I'm getting a bit tired of the media/Facebook/news shouting about whether gay marriage should be legal.
Not tired of the talking - that's a very basic American right, to disagree - but the shouting part.
And the one with the most strident and deafening shrieks seems to be coming from the side which claims to be Christian.
Scriptures are pushed with great self-righteousness under the nose of the people who are "thumbing their noses at God's commandment", such as Romans 1:27 "
the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet."
But then ignoring the following verse of "
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things."
And I think there are some other items on our moral agenda that should be addressed first, such as martial infidelity (
57%), spousal abuse (
25% for women, at least),
One in five women reported that they have been raped during their life
More than
five children die every day as the result of abuse - 12 out of every 1,000 children were
victims of maltreatment in 2005.
And less than 4% of our population report themselves to be homosexuals.
Focus, people, focus - we got problems a whole lot bigger than two people who are in love and wish to legally share their lives together.
And if you think gay marriage is morally wrong, abhorrent, and against God's commandments, then don't get gay married - no one if forcing you.
But if you believe in loving your neighbor (even if the neighbor is gay, or Muslim, or a liberal), then there are a lot more things more important that could use your attention.
If we've been hurt, we're much less likely to trust.
