Out4Marriage

Hi guys! Sorry for my inexcusable absence from blogging for the past few months. I have been panicking over the stress that is exams. I have one left tomorrow...but I thought I deserved a break from reading about Achilleus's childish exhibitions of behaviour in the Iliad. (He really is bloody irritating.)

Now. I am sure many of you are aware of the increasing support for the legalisation of equal marriage around the world and the many campaigns that have been set up to honour this worthwhile cause.

In the UK we are currently going through a consultation period which is nearly over!

Here are some of the reasons why I believe equal marriage should be legalised:

I don't like the fact that people who are homosexual lose rights...for telling the truth and expressing a fundamental part of who they are. What also seems absurd to me is that a gay man and a lesbian can get married but they can't get married to their respective same sex partners.

There is also this huge generalisation that being gay means one is inherently promiscuous and that they wouldn't value a monogamous commitment. This is not true. Many gay people enjoy committed, monogamous relationships that can transcend that of a heterosexual couple, because of the gender they share (some would argue that makes the pair more understanding of each others emotions).

Anyway, focussing back on the point. It's the 21st Century! I honestly can't understand the hold up on equal marriage...its so simple. Also, religion should have no say in civil rights...I would like to refer to religion and government as 'non-overlapping magisteria'. They should remain separate...

What religion does in its own walls is up to religion (however I am heartened to see a declaration of support for equal marriage among Deans and Bishops of the UK.

Also, I don't fully understand some religions grounds for opposition. They scream that homosexuality is abhorrent and that homosexuals are sinful but they ignore a lot of other stuff in the Bible that is 'no longer relevant'.

For example. DEUTERONOMY!

22.20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel,22.21 then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house; so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

Right...roughly 95% of women in the Western World have premarital sex... When do we start with the stoning? My message to the Church: If you are going to focus on a few passages in the Bible that condemn homosexuality and ignore other passages with clear instructions regarding heterosexual relationships...you lose all credibility. (Obviously I don't think women should be stoned on their wedding night if they aren't a virgin!)

Christians can't pick and choose what in the Bible they believe to be true. All of the Bible should be up for interpretation and/or discredited.

Furthermore, the Bible got something as simple as slavery wrong...its pretty safe to assume it got the complexities of human sexuality wrong too.

If its a question of procreation, a lot of infertile heterosexual people or those that don't wish to have children get married. Plus, gay people can provide loving environments to children in need of adoption. Orphaned or unwanted children need a home too. (Plus do we really need to increase the population?)

Ok. A parting video. A chap I have been messaging over the past 2 weeks is the film maker behind the Out4Marriage campaign. Have a watch. His name is Mike Buonaiuto and he was responsible for the Coalition for equal Marriage Viral film (which I will also post.). He has been incredibly supportive of me and my coming to terms with who I am. Thankyou Mike.

After all. It's about love isn't it? We are all capable of love, and love is the same everywhere.

That is why I am Out4Marriage.