@Tailkinker Said
Well, the sad thing is that the supreme court ruled in the constitutionally correct way. Unfortunately the majority of Americans are bigoted against gays and in a republic like ours that means no gay marriage. The only way to change this is to continue to touch peoples hearts and minds and getting them to understand that making sure that gays have equal rights wont hurt them in many ways.
It has to be done one debate at a time, one conversation at a time, one heart at a time. It will take a long long time to do this.
Absolutely spot on. I agree entirely.
When gay marriage was legalised in the UK in 2005, the churches warned that it was the end of civilisation as we knew it. They forecast a complete breakdown in society and that there would be a backlash against homosexuals of "Biblical proportions", as the Roman Catholic Primate in Britain called it.
What tosh..!!. No such thing happened.
Nearly four years on, the skies haven't darkened, the seas haven't boiled and a plague has not descended upon the land.
Rather, gay marriage has eased seamlessly into the public consciousness. My wife and I live in our local community with no problems and we get on well with all our neighbours. There was a little surprise at first and we did get a few stares, but once they realised that we just go about our daily lives the same as everyone else then we became "just another young couple".
This is what would happen in the US too, I believe, if it was given the chance.
Perhaps it is the British experience that has been seen by the churches in the US, and this is what they fear.... They see a successful, happy, peaceful integration of homosexuals in mainstream society in Britain and they are terrified it could happen in the US, too.
Perhaps it is our experience that has steeled the resolve of the US churches to prevent gay marriage. Their reasons for that are undoubtedly borne of bigotry, prejudice and hatred. Very un-christian behaviour, don't you think...? But the only way to defeat that behaviour is to rise above it.
Be better than them. Just be yourselves and live peacefully with your neighbours and your loved ones. That will reach more hearts and minds than all the spittle-flecked ranting from pulpits. Little by little, the tide WILL turn.
The tide of history is with you. Best wishes.
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