Okay, just for the record, not all of my blogs are gonna be about politics, there's just something that happened at church today that just happens to be about Prop 8 again. So I get to church and I find out that for the next two weeks, they're going to be talking all politics and election and shit. So, what they briefly mentioned today, but are going to go into more detail next week, was the issue of same sex marriage and how it goes against God's word.
First of all, America is supposed to be the "land of the free", not the land of the free, just as long as it doesn't go against the right wing, conservative ideology of many of our citizens but not exactly our government. Sure, the founding fathers were all Christians and they had certain beliefs, but they didn't put those beliefs into the Constitution; in fact, they specifically placed a separation between church and state. Now, from what I've learned in my AP Government class, the separation was originally put in to protect religion from the government. But now I think it's needed to protect the government form the church. You cannot expect the government to ban same sex marriage because it goes against the book that you follow, even if most of government officials are Christian they still can't do anything about it because it goes against the Constitution.
I seem to have digressed from my original point, the preacher was talking about how if Prop 8 did not get passed that nobody really knows what is going to happen. But he did got all hypothetical on our asses, saying that if the state told them they would lose their tax exemption unless they performed same sex marriages, then they would lose their tax exemption. He also went to crazy extremes where teaching Christianity became outlawed because it didn't agree with the homosexual agenda and he gets executed by the government for still preaching it.
What I wanna focus on is the first issue, the one that's in all the TV ads, churches losing tax exemption. First of all, I really don't think our church would have any trouble with this considering our building isn't exactly "beautiful." It's pretty bland for a church, not like it's a fucking gorgeous cathedral. Not many people get married there that aren't somehow already connected to the place in the first place. If, and this is a mighty big if, if the state really does start stripping tax exemption status, then it would be from churches refusing to marry same sex couples, not for not doing it because they were never asked in the first place.
The only possibility I could see of anything like that happening is if a very malicious couple is intentionally going around to different churches and asking them to host their wedding just so they can say no and get their asses sued. And I really doubt that's gonna happen.
Another thing I thought was strange was a part when he said that God loved everyone, no matter what race, creed, color, income or gender. But he didn't say anything about sexual orientation, God does care about that. God hates fags. He loves everyone, unless they're gay. I find that whole thing to be incredibly hypocritical.
Well, that's all I really have to say about that. And hopefully this will be the last blog I post about politics. Until maybe November 5th.
First of all, America is supposed to be the "land of the free", not the land of the free, just as long as it doesn't go against the right wing, conservative ideology of many of our citizens but not exactly our government. Sure, the founding fathers were all Christians and they had certain beliefs, but they didn't put those beliefs into the Constitution; in fact, they specifically placed a separation between church and state. Now, from what I've learned in my AP Government class, the separation was originally put in to protect religion from the government. But now I think it's needed to protect the government form the church. You cannot expect the government to ban same sex marriage because it goes against the book that you follow, even if most of government officials are Christian they still can't do anything about it because it goes against the Constitution.
I seem to have digressed from my original point, the preacher was talking about how if Prop 8 did not get passed that nobody really knows what is going to happen. But he did got all hypothetical on our asses, saying that if the state told them they would lose their tax exemption unless they performed same sex marriages, then they would lose their tax exemption. He also went to crazy extremes where teaching Christianity became outlawed because it didn't agree with the homosexual agenda and he gets executed by the government for still preaching it.
What I wanna focus on is the first issue, the one that's in all the TV ads, churches losing tax exemption. First of all, I really don't think our church would have any trouble with this considering our building isn't exactly "beautiful." It's pretty bland for a church, not like it's a fucking gorgeous cathedral. Not many people get married there that aren't somehow already connected to the place in the first place. If, and this is a mighty big if, if the state really does start stripping tax exemption status, then it would be from churches refusing to marry same sex couples, not for not doing it because they were never asked in the first place.
The only possibility I could see of anything like that happening is if a very malicious couple is intentionally going around to different churches and asking them to host their wedding just so they can say no and get their asses sued. And I really doubt that's gonna happen.
Another thing I thought was strange was a part when he said that God loved everyone, no matter what race, creed, color, income or gender. But he didn't say anything about sexual orientation, God does care about that. God hates fags. He loves everyone, unless they're gay. I find that whole thing to be incredibly hypocritical.
Well, that's all I really have to say about that. And hopefully this will be the last blog I post about politics. Until maybe November 5th.
