Something that may be controversial...

But please everybody be civil and no hate responses.


Some of you may think I'm a heretic, but the question of gay marriage has 2 aspects to it.  One aspect is the religious aspect that being gay is an abomination.  I believe that the actual abomination is the sexual act of a man lying down with a man in the same manner as a man with a woman (look at Lev 20:13), but if you follow that law then you must kill the 2 men who laid together as a man would with a woman.  Oh and you should kill adulterers.  Leviticus, which is often quoted in the argument that being gay is a sin, states that many of the sexual acts that occur today are punishable by death.  So the rightness or wrongness of being gay or lesbian or whatever is a religious issue and as we all know, the government may make no law regarding the establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof (first amendment to the Constitution of the United States).

While you may disapprove of gay marriage on religious grounds, can you separate the argument from the legal aspect of the argument?  Because the Supreme court basically said, it's up to the people not the federal government and that the Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against a set of people in the land.  If you look at it legally, the couples want the same rights that other couples get when they pay their taxes or dealing with estates or government benefits.  If you're against same sex marriage, then you are saying (intentionally or unintentionally) that they don't have and shouldn't have the same rights as straight people.  Under DOMA those rights were kept from them.  Basically the Supreme Court said that congress over stepped it's bounds by treating one group of citizens differently than others and under the 14th amendment, all laws are to be applied equally to all people (unless you're a member of congress or the senate - that's just my 2 cents there).  The supreme court did leave it up to the states and the people of those states to either have or have not same sex marriage.

One of the arguments made regarding the banning of same sex marriage is that it will undermine traditional marriage and traditional families.  I'd like to see that argument.

Now the Paula Dean thing.  I only have one thing to say "Let he (or she) who is without sin cast the first stone."  Kind of funny that that's what she said on the Today show this morning (this morning being the morning of June 26, 2013).

Here's my disclaimer:
I don't condone the use of the N word nor do I necessarily condone the telling of sexist or racist jokes.