This weekend I went to a store with my wife. As we neared the store, we noticed that the street corner was littered with what had to be about 30 people waving signs and yelling. Some of these people were adults, some teens, and some were small children. A closer look revealed that they were out trying to muster support of people looking to reject Washington State Referendum 71. This referendum would expand the rights of domestic partnerships here in Washington and has been called a step toward allowing gay marriage.
The demonstration was obscene. There were children no older than 5 or 6 wearing homemade t-shirts that said "I like girls" (for boys) and vice versa. They were holding signs that said "Marriage = One man + One woman" and "Defending Families, Protecting Children." This last one was the one that really set me off. Protecting children from what, exactly? What the hell does it matter to your kid if someone else has a committed long term monogamous relationship with someone of the same gender? How is that possibly putting your child in danger? And while we're at it... How dare you? How dare you talk about protecting children, when you're whoring your own kids out on a street corner to advance an oppressive political agenda. All you are teaching your children is hatred. Pure and simple. You can mask it in biblical dogma all you want, but it's nothing more than fear and disdain for those who don't fit in to your little mold.
What if it was your kid? What then? What if your son came home from middle school and went into his room crying every afternoon because he just couldn't figure out why he wasn't turned on by the same things as the other boys in the locker room? What if he tried and tried to fit in, but just couldn't get himself aroused the same way as everyone else? What if he had the courage to come to you and tell you what his orientation was? Would you throw him out? Disown him? Would you try to "pray the gay away" - alienating him from you and the rest of your family? Or what if he just decided suicide was the easier way out because you'd brought him up to believe that people like him were going to Hell?
What if he kept it quiet, but someone else with even more hate in his heart than you found out? What if they drug him behind a pickup truck? What if they beat him to death and left his body on display stuck to a fence post? Or what if your son was straight (Thank Jesus) but grew up to be the one who did the dragging and beating and murdering? What then? Would you take any responsibility? Would you secretly be proud because there was one less faggot or dike in the world?
No? None of these extreme things sound like you, do they? You just think that "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve..." Right? It's just that marriage is sacred, right? And God calls homosexuality sinful, right? Well answer me this:
How can we possibly call marriage sacred in a society where heterosexual marriages end up with a 50% divorce rate? How can you say that you take the bible literally and use it as a weapon in your political war when you so clearly ignore such huge portions of it?
My point is this: You don't really believe what you say you believe. You don't believe that God is love. You're just afraid. Things in our society are evolving and changing and you're not quite sure what your place will be in all of it. My question is... What are you afraid of?
I am the Reverend Humpy and I have approved this message.
1 comment:
Well said rev. Well said indeed.
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