I read this months ago and thought it was interesting.
NEW YORK - Gay is the new black, say the protest signs and magazine covers, casting the gay marriage battle as the last frontier of equal rights for all.
Gay marriage is not a civil right, opponents counter, insisting that minority status comes from who you are rather than what you do.
The gay rights movement entered a new era when Barack Obama was elected the first black president the same day that voters in California and Florida passed referendums to prevent gays and lesbians from marrying, while Arizonans turned down civil unions and Arkansans said no to adoptions by same-sex couples.
You can read the rest of the article on MSNBC here.
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12 years ago
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Tough issue and one that is particularly heartbreaking for Jamie and I as we have an oddly large number of friends and family members who are gay.
I don't have all the answers, or even a few for that matter, but I do know that many of the stereotypes and "easy answers" we were fed as young people simply haven't lined up with many of the homosexuals I know. Many of them love Jesus dearly, were not abused as children, and tried desperately to be heterosexual for years before finally giving up and deciding that, if God couldn't love them "the way they were", then He couldn't love them.
It's been heartbreaking and, if homosexuality is indeed a sin, it is easily the most unfair of all the sins. I've never seen anything so binding in my life.
One more thing (since this is your blog and not mine!). When you look at all the sins listed in the Bible (at least those still considered to be sins in the New Testament) all of them seem to fit neatly within the "you didn't love God" or "didn't love your neighbor" boxes. All except homosexuality, that is. But for the life of me, I can't figure out how homosexuality fits into either of these two boxes???
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