Yesterday CA courts upheld the ban on same-sex marriage. Sucky.
Yes, I am an active, practicing Catholic. Yes, I'm even a minister in the Catholic church. I also wholeheartedly support gay marriage. I fail to see how allowing other people to experience the beauty & challenge that is marriage some how takes away from it. I think anytime people want to make a public commitment to loving each other we should support it.
I heard someone suggest that if the whole debate is about the use of the word marriage we could just take the word out of legal usage. That way under the law all couples, gay or straight, can be enter into unions but marriage would just be used for everyday language, religious ceremonies, etc. I don't know if this would satisfy everyone but I would gladly give up the legal word marriage if that meant we could all be equal. If gay couples can't be "married" under the law perhaps we straights shouldn't get to use the word anymore either.
Of course then there's the trouble that the Catholic Church isn't going to marry gay couples any time soon. I think we're going to find ourself on the wrong side of this issue.
2 what would you say?:
I love the image you posted and I absolutely agree with your post. Hopefully, more outrage results in more change.
I totally agree with you. Mark and I were just talking about this very same thing the other day :)
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