I've never understood religiously based claims that same-sex marriage is a threat to society. I always thought such claims were based on heterosexist bigotry.But this quote makes me see things in a different light. It may not so much be bigotry (though I am not completely convinced), but a rigidly held world view about the "known" order of the universe. Thus it explains the concern at children growing up without their biological father (in the case of lesbian parents), or the oft asked question, "Which one is the man in your relationship?"
"For fundamentalist Christians, a wedding is about the joining of a man and woman in a way that reinforces certain ideas about patriarchy and divine authority: God over man; man over woman; couple over child. When you and Aaron married, you rebelled against the idea that marriage and family is a way of submitting to the correct order of creation. Instead you replaced it with all sorts of horizontal and egalitarian commitments that celebrate love, equality, companionship and the joining of families rather than the production of children within a hierarchical family unit. No wonder Wildmon sees you as a threat to civilization. If we followed your example, pretty soon we'd be out of metaphors for a God who looks a lot like an abusive, judgmental father-lord."
Your thoughts?
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God is a bastard. He is supposedly all knowing yet he flooded the earth and killed just about everything because he was pissed off. When it was over he said he felt bad and would never do it again. If he were all knowing, he would have known that in advance.
Then he goes out on a gambling binge with Satan over the reactions of the torture of Job. Then he screws with Abraham... I tell you, he's a prick and not worth believing in.
ha..guy cracks me up.
My thoughts exactly Guy. God is a social creation, done in man's image, personifying all of humankind's best and worst traits.
That said, I still want to wrap my mind around the aversion Christianists have toward same-sex love and same-sex marriage.
Life and all things are circular not linear, and there for no need for a heirarchy to begin with. Also there are many of us who believe in a Goddess not a God and that love not fear is what our deity wishes from us and since Christianity's roots spring from Paganism.........hmmm
"Which one is the man in your relationship?"
Ugh, that question grinds on my nerves.
LOL @ Guy!
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