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After reading the facebook trolling thread, I have thought about this whole thing throughout the day. Many of my friends support gay marriage and I think to myself who are we to judge others and their ways.
I find it amazing that in this day and age we are having this argument of whether gay marriage should be allowed or not. Our society is evolving as it has in the past.
Through the evolution of society we see our morality changing with each generation. We can search back in history and see that society had much different views on morality. Today morality is set with some basic principals that seem to be founded upon the Christian beliefs though these beliefs are changing in the teachings of Christ. Currently each state has laws that dictate the morality of many things including the legal age of consent, the age at which one can marry, etc. We can look back in history and see that open Roman orgies were commonplace and now would be considered taboo. In history we found people were married in the early teenage years. Yes we can attribute these ideas based upon the shorter expectancy of life, but it was once moral. We currently see many world religions that push themselves onto others with the goal of converting the other. Each saying their way of life is correct though many people will disagree.
Who are we to push our views upon others? Our society has developed societal norms over time which seems to keep evolving. While people stick to their views and try and push them upon others we see that there is push back. The growth of radical views from people such as radical Islamist to the radical views of Westboro Baptist Church. These are also groups that feel their views are above all and that their morals are just. Who are we to say that our morals supersede theirs? Morality is not only changing over the years we can see that morality has different meanings. The morals of the Christian religion preached by Westboro Baptist Church are not the same morals taught by local churches such as Fellowship Church though their principals are based on the same philosophy.
While I previously did not believe in gay marriage, who am I to deny the rights of happiness between two men or two women? Why should my views prevent them from receiving death benefits or health benefits of their partner. Both of these situations have nothing to do with my own views. While the ideal of marriage may mean many different things to different people, who are we to deny the rights to others. Who declared that marriage is between a man and a woman? We can see the societal changes that are imminent as we see more health insurance companies allowing domestic partners to be added to health insurance plans and employers willing to pay for them.
Previously I did not support gay couples having the right to adopt children. While I am very reserved on this opinion I have opened my eyes. A guy I work with and his partner have a son who is a grown adult. They are a happy family and who am I to stop that? I have always feared that children will be made fun of having two mothers or two fathers. While I do believe this will take decade upon decade to resolve this idea, it comes back to the same principals. If we can be open to allowing views different from ours, then we can stop children from making fun of others. We can look back in history where some people were more progressive and white people had black friends. Black people were hounded over decades and eventually given equality. Who are we to deny this equality to gay people? A civil war was fought over the morality of men and women being property as slaves. After hundreds of thousands of men women and children died defending their views on the morality of slavery, we founded the laws to declare slavery illegal. The evolution of morality is inevitable.
tl;dr
Who are we to say gay men and women should not be allowed to marry, and what is their justification?
I find it amazing that in this day and age we are having this argument of whether gay marriage should be allowed or not. Our society is evolving as it has in the past.
Through the evolution of society we see our morality changing with each generation. We can search back in history and see that society had much different views on morality. Today morality is set with some basic principals that seem to be founded upon the Christian beliefs though these beliefs are changing in the teachings of Christ. Currently each state has laws that dictate the morality of many things including the legal age of consent, the age at which one can marry, etc. We can look back in history and see that open Roman orgies were commonplace and now would be considered taboo. In history we found people were married in the early teenage years. Yes we can attribute these ideas based upon the shorter expectancy of life, but it was once moral. We currently see many world religions that push themselves onto others with the goal of converting the other. Each saying their way of life is correct though many people will disagree.
Who are we to push our views upon others? Our society has developed societal norms over time which seems to keep evolving. While people stick to their views and try and push them upon others we see that there is push back. The growth of radical views from people such as radical Islamist to the radical views of Westboro Baptist Church. These are also groups that feel their views are above all and that their morals are just. Who are we to say that our morals supersede theirs? Morality is not only changing over the years we can see that morality has different meanings. The morals of the Christian religion preached by Westboro Baptist Church are not the same morals taught by local churches such as Fellowship Church though their principals are based on the same philosophy.
While I previously did not believe in gay marriage, who am I to deny the rights of happiness between two men or two women? Why should my views prevent them from receiving death benefits or health benefits of their partner. Both of these situations have nothing to do with my own views. While the ideal of marriage may mean many different things to different people, who are we to deny the rights to others. Who declared that marriage is between a man and a woman? We can see the societal changes that are imminent as we see more health insurance companies allowing domestic partners to be added to health insurance plans and employers willing to pay for them.
Previously I did not support gay couples having the right to adopt children. While I am very reserved on this opinion I have opened my eyes. A guy I work with and his partner have a son who is a grown adult. They are a happy family and who am I to stop that? I have always feared that children will be made fun of having two mothers or two fathers. While I do believe this will take decade upon decade to resolve this idea, it comes back to the same principals. If we can be open to allowing views different from ours, then we can stop children from making fun of others. We can look back in history where some people were more progressive and white people had black friends. Black people were hounded over decades and eventually given equality. Who are we to deny this equality to gay people? A civil war was fought over the morality of men and women being property as slaves. After hundreds of thousands of men women and children died defending their views on the morality of slavery, we founded the laws to declare slavery illegal. The evolution of morality is inevitable.
tl;dr
Who are we to say gay men and women should not be allowed to marry, and what is their justification?
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