I haven't posted in awhile and I'm usually posting about fitness etc but today I have read an article that makes me want to write about.
It was an article about gay marriage, they interviewed three men for and three men against gay marriage. Their reasons varied and even the against were quite intelligent and not hateful. But it made me think about some of the religious reasons that they brought up as to why gay marriage shouldn't be allowed.
Religion states that a marriage is between a man and a woman as their love produces a baby and that it is forever. It states that divorce is a no no as is indiscretions etc.
Unfortunately times have changed since these 'rules' how many marriages don't result in children? Whether its by choice or not. Does this mean these marriages shouldn't have happened? If after all the point of marriage is to produce children?
How many marriages end in divorce due to cheating or simply not working or abuse etc and how many get married simply for money or because you slipped in birth control and are now expecting? How many marry for all the wrong reasons? Again should these marriages have not happened because of this knowledge or does it not matter how much they ruin the meaning of marriage because they are of opposite sex?
Also- a marriage has always been in a church, with religious vows. How many now get married in a park, on a beach? How many write their own vows, don't have prayers and do it their own way? Does having that choice on your wedding day to say what you want, marry your love in a setting that is less then traditional mean that your doomed to fail or that it isn't a real marriage under the eyes of these marriage know it alls?
Just because a marriage is technically between a man and woman and in a church surrounded by god doesn't mean it will end in a fairy tale. Doesn't mean a baby will be born, doesn't mean they won't cheat or won't fight or end in divorce etc. Why do these marriages plus marriages that have done it their own way way mean more then gay marriages, despite going against the original term or a marriage.
Same sex marriages aren't ruining the sanctity of marriage, they are simply taking love and marriage to a new level, just like opposite sex marriages did when they decided to go against church weddings and marry under the stars or on the beach or at their favourite park or holiday destination. I believe a marriage is between two people who are in love, who see their lives together until they are old and grey, they may have kids, they may not, but they will be in love, they will argue, they will make up and at the end of the day despite everything else they will go to bed together and say I love you. That to me seems like something anyone in a loving relationship can do, same sex or opposite, why must people continue to fight it and label it when all anyone wants when they decide to get married is to spend the rest of their lives with their loved one. I support marriage. Simple.
Jxx
