Federal Marriage amendment

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

This is a sad week in America. It is the week when, bowing to political pressures, our government seeks to institutionalize discrimination. Have we ever progressed past our civil rights transgressions? Evidently not.

The proposed federal marriage amendment is clearly an abridgement of a certain class of American citizens' rights. It is, equally, an infringement upon the separation of church and state. The logic completely eludes me...probably because there is absoultely no logic involved. Statistical evidence proves that the 10 states that either allow same sex marriage or civil union, and those that specifically have made no such attempt to amend their state constitutions accordingly, have the lowest unwed mother rate and the lowest divorce rate. Conversely, those states which are most vehement in their attack on the GLBT communities have the highest unwed mother rate and the highest divorce rate. It is also statistically evident that money problems and finiancial distress are the primary causes for divorce.

This argument is based solely upon someone's religious convictions and to enact legislation or to attempt to amend the constitution on such grounds is clearly a violation of the separation of church and state. Even the democratic president, Bil clinton, was guilty of demeaning the GLBT community with the "Defense of Marriage" act, which, too, was a blatant breach of church/state separation.

Yesterday...I listened to Senator Sam Brownback(R-Kansas) and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanon unequivocally state that, essentially, being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender was deviant, immoral and was indicative of the onset of decadence in this country. Well...I do not deny that this country displays signs of decadence, but they are absoultely NOT due to a person's sexual preference or their gender presentation. It is because we have devalued the middle class...we have elevated wealth to godly status. Many of these so called fundamentalist reconstructionists have rationalized their wealth as a sign that God is pleased with them and that material rewards are God's way of showing favor to those who have "been saved". That, my friends, is clearly decadent!!

The audacity...to relegate the, perhaps, 5+% of Americans to immorality, social decay...to blame US for society's ills...well...that is undeniably preposterous and unacceptable.

Jesus associated with the lower classes, the outcasts, the unwanted...he preached non- judgement...he taught love...how these people can call themselves "Christians" defies any attempt towards understanding.

If there is such a place as Hell...as these fundamentalists are so convinced...I am confident that there is a special place reserved there for those who have pridefully preached and practiced intolerance, who are guilty of blasphemy by disparaging any single member or group which is part of the Great Spirit's creations.

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