Looks like Washington, D.C. is hell-bent on catching up with the other left-wing trends by passing a gay-marriage law. Essentially, the city council is attempting to change their marriage license laws to allow for same-sex couples. This is the same old issue, except this time the only higher authority, besides God Himself, that can stop it is Congress. And well, we all know how that is going to go.
This may surprise many people, seeing as how I am a devout Christian, but I really do not care if this whole country decides to legalize all forms of marriage, save for marriage of young children. It is not that I do not believe such things to be moral or acceptable, as I believe that they are immoral, it is that I do care much for the sins of others as long as they do not harm me or my family. And seeing gay couples get married is the least of my concerns when it comes to humanity. There are much deeper, more damaging issues that many Christians refuse to face.
Still though, I am a little confused as to why gay people wish to have this legal privilege. When I got married, I did not see anything on the document that made my partnership with my wife all that special. If anything, it was more for the benefit of the state and their records keeping. Personally, I was really annoyed that I had to swear an oath to the state before I could swear an oath before God. It seems like the government only wants to take priority over God in my life and is willing to cheapen the sacred to nothing more than a simple financial transaction.
So, what benefit are they seeking when they want to get married? Gay couples can easily benefit from all of the supposed benefits of marriage without the hassle of going to some bureaucrat in a courthouse and swearing an oath before government. If it is about insurance, with both individuals working, that usually is not a problem as you can get your own individual health insurance plans. If it is about visitation rights or conferring property after death, well, marriage does not really provide the needed benefits. My wife and I both still had to get Living Wills and Last Will and Testament documents set up and signed by two witnesses. This is something that gay couples can do on their own as well.
I am sure there are legal ramifications for doing this, but I believe that most people would not know how to take advantage of them. So why do these folks wish to press upon society some legal privilege that Vox Day has said is beneficial to women, tolerable for religious men, and disastrous for non-religious men?
The answer I came up with is probably a little unconventional. It is because gay men and women know that what they are doing is morally wrong. They may be conscious of it, as a sinner’s sense of right and wrong can be blurred due to repeated sin, but they know because God has written it on their hearts. As such, many of the radical gay movements view the government as the final authority on right and wrong because many of them are practicing secular humanists. So in order to try and alleviate their own conscious, they are attempting to legitimize their behavior in the eyes of the all-knowing, all-seeing state.
I did not come to this conclusion based solely on the gay marriage movement. About a decade or so ago, back when Pope John Paul II was still alive, there was a huge gay pride parade march on Vatican City. The leaders and organizers of the movement did this in order to open a dialog with the Pope. Now why in the hell would a group like that want to open a dialog with an institution that openly decries their behavior and has shown no signs of oppressing them in several decades, if not centuries?
If nothing else, it is because they know what they are doing is wrong and they were attempting to get the man they perceived as the ultimate authority in all things moral to legitimize their behavior and clear their conscious. Same scenario, just a different god.
I am sure that there are other reasons for the push from the gay community to legalize their deviant relationships, besides the obvious ones that they continually state and restate. But this is the best explanation I came up with.
Understand too that I am well aware that there are many gay men and women who are perfectly happy with their life, that they do not define their life by their sexuality, and that they do not need to legitimize or justify their behavior. I harbor a kind of respect for that because they are being honest with themselves, which is something that many of us, gay or straight, seem to lack.
But in the end, the radical gay mafia movements are all about alleviating their own conscious, otherwise they would not bother with all this nonsense.