A Gay Day

While gay couples have the opportunity today to marry in California and the topic is hot, let me weigh in with a couple of thoughts.

To say that gay marriages threaten heterosexual marriages is akin to saying that a man who loses a leg threatens my ability to walk. Expressing such a concern points to an underlying dynamic: those who are weak or insecure on the inside are more easily threatened by things on the outside. Those who are the most threatened by homosexuality are those who suspect their own homosexual urges and are hell bent on denying them. They are unable to accept and integrate that we are not strictly male and female beings, and that there are qualities to greater and lesser degrees of each in every person.

It is within my lifetime that there were laws against interracial marriage.

To say that something one doesn't understand and therefore fears should be illegal is poor reasoning for legislation. To say that civil law in the United States should be drawn from religious law would bring up the question of why Christians have such problems with Sharia rule, and why they have such a hard time with 'do unto others...'.