Let me start this off with this : I am happily married in a HETEROSEXUAL union, and enjoy the rights that come with it. Now if two men were to get married to each other, and invite me to attend, I would attend and wish the couple the best. If two women were to get married to each other, and invite me to attend, I would do the same --- attend and wish them the best. I treat them the same as a Man-woman union.
The states most opposed to marriage equality permit incest marriages, which I believe should be totally illegal. It comes down to a very skewed attitude about marriage where the man is "owner" and woman is "owned". That model of marriage should have been killed off during the Age of Reason in the 1700's. A lot of other barbaric practices should also be gone also, but human cruelty is imprinted in the DNA of some people.
The biggest opposition to marriage equality comes from the "true believer" set of the Christian right, who view homosexuality as the worst possible sin. The scriptures disagrees with their assessment. The worst possible sin is viewing the presence of the spirit of God, and ascribing that presence as the presence of Satan, knowing otherwise. That particular sin can ONLY be committed by the religious, and spiritually aware.
Many leaders of the politicized Church are closer to committing this sin than their followers would be aware of. The Sadducee who crave material comforts and the Pharisee who crave power over other people committed this sin in the presence of Jesus by ascribing his miracles to the power of sorcery. They knew otherwise. They did it anyway, and they gladly make converts twice the child of hell that they are.
http://bible.cc/matthew/23-15.htm
God will sooner permit homosexual married couples entrance into heaven, with them as couple, before the political whores in the pulpit who preach the gospel of material dominion. Every judgement imposed by the LORD was triggered not by sexual misdeeds, but by the glorification of violence, and abuse of the powerless.
http://bible.cc/proverbs/19-17.htm http://bible.cc/proverbs/14-31.htm http://bible.cc/1_john/3-17.htm http://bible.cc/proverbs/21-13.htm http://bible.cc/james/2-13.htm
Jesus violently threw the usurers out of the Temple. Next time he has a more permanent solution for the wealthy who mock and abuse the poor, glorify violence, and strain at the gnat (sexual sin) and swallow the camel (lust for material wealth and power). It's called the Final Judgement, and their place will be in the lake of fire.
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