So, big day today at the Supreme Court, I was notified by the multitude of pink and red equal signs blowing up my Facebook. I hope everyone is being nice to each other! Since no one cares about my uneducated and inexperienced opinion on the matter, I'll just write it here.
Personally, the organization of the family that I want and envision for myself is beautiful and perfect. But I know that just isn't the reality (right now, at least) for everyone. For a lot of reasons. There are about as many versions of family as there are paint swatches at Home Depot. And as much as I wish everyone could be in a magazine-cover picture-perfect family, the sad reality is that essentially all families will have problems in this life.
That being said, and with the facts I have right now, I don't have a problem with legalizing same-sex marriage. I think there are a lot of problems in this world that we could all unite to try and fix and we'd be better off focusing on those. I get where some people are coming from when they oppose it, especially when it comes to religion, but the reality is that we probably meet a ton of people every day who are breaking every commandment and suggestion and whatever else that your religion gives you to live by, and we don't usually try to "fix" people quite as much for doing those things. Which is good, because nowhere in the Gospel that I know, or any other normal church I know of, is it assigned to anyone the job of judging anyone else's level or righteousness or where they will end up after this life. Jesus said love everyone, treat them kindly too. When your heart is filled with love, others will love you.
Quite frankly, from what I've heard, I think that the things about same-sex marriage that people oppose are happening and going to continue happening whether or not these couples are legally recognized as such by the government, and that the things they are being deprived of now such as hospital visitation rights and tax crap are things that everyone by virtue of being human should have access to anyway (people who never marry, I'm pointing at you) so I personally don't see what the big deal is. Maybe there is one. I don't know. But for now, I think that we should leave it to God to sort it all out, and just work on making the world a better place for all human beings.
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