JUNE 28, 2008
The fight against gay marriage continues and it's as hypocritical as ever. Case in point: the Mormon church is asking its California members to join the effort to amend California's constitution to define marriage as being between a man and a woman
"We ask that you do all you can to support the proposed constitutional amendment by donating of your means and time to ensure that marriage in California is legally defined as being between a man and a woman. Our best efforts are required to preserve the sacred institution of marriage," church leaders said in a letter.
Gee, Mormons, didn't your religion practice polygamy for many years? Didn't your church fight against making polygamy illegal back in the day? And didn't your revered leader and prophet Brigham Young, in fact, have 56 wives? And doesn't your religion still believe that polygamy will be practiced in the afterlife?
Preserving the sacred institution of marriage, my ass! How utterly hypocritical of the Mormon church to support an amendment about marriage that is contrary to their own beliefs on the subject! This is just an easy opportunity for them to hop on the homophobia bandwagon and try to make it look righteous, like so many other churches have done.
But what I don't understand is why Christians are obsessed with homosexuality. Jesus didn't say anything about homosexuality or gay marriage in the gospels, but he did preach against things like divorce, intolerance, and being judgemental, and yet based on the religious right's campaign against gay marriage you'd think fighting homosexuality had topped Jesus' agenda.
Odd, don't you think? I mean, if people are going to call themselves Christians, shouldn't they base their lives and views on what Christ actually said and taught?
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