Heterosexuals Not Allowed To Marry

Heterosexuals have proven they are unfit for marriage!  Their history of infidelity, abuse, viciousness, emotional coldness, using sex as a weapon, and (generally in the USA) failing to provide a safe, nutritious diet for their children is bad enough.  But they are also predatory.  The vast majority of men are “on the prowl” when they go away from home, and probably a simple majority are looking for someone to bed even when living at home.  Heterosexual men and women prey on children, adolescents and people of maturity.  Heterosexual men and women prey on high school students, middle school students and some (admittedly, a few) prey on very young children.  

It’s wrong.  It’s not natural.  One man, one woman, ‘till death do us part, is what the church teaches is natural, right and good.  Clearly, the majority of heterosexuals are not in the will of God, and should be prohibited from the sacred sacrament of marriage.  

Aren’t these some of the arguments used to deny homosexuals the right to marry?

The Above is a Parody.  See “Reflections on a Parody”.

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Reflecting on a Parody - Feelings

A good friend commented on my recent post about heterosexuals not being allowed to marry.  He was taken aback by the harsh tone.  I explained that it is a parody of the kind of things people say as a rationale for denying gay and lesbian people the right to marry.  On reflection I added the phrase to the blog, "This is a parody".

I reflected some more.  Many of us who are know gay and lesbian folks know them as grandmas and grandpas, kindly souls, gentle souls, folks who are easy to be around.  Keep that in mind.

Then keep my friend's concern that I was being harsh, painting heterosexual men as scumbags, unfaithful, etc.  That would hurt a lot of good guys in churches we know.

I kept reflecting through a couple of games of Solitaire.  If that would hurt these heterosexual men, what feelings do gay and lesbians feel when they read such things about "all homosexuals" and "all gay men", and so forth?

I reflected that it is fairly normal to feel concern for the tender feelings of our heterosexual friends and forget that homosexual people have the same feelings when they are unfairly painted with a brush coated in slime. 

Hmmm.  Do you suppose that all humans feel hurt, resentful, and even angry when lumped in to a generalization that doesn't describe them?  Might God resent the way his kids are being tarred?

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The Size of Faith

With death staring us in the face most of the time, I wonder if people’s faith is large enough.  Let me clarify.

I know a number of people who have enough faith to believe God could heal someone they know and care about.  Sometimes they have to “pump up” that faith by meditating, reading Bible verses, praying and fasting.  O.K.  I think that’s cool.

Sometimes their faith stops right there.  They seem deeply afraid of death.  Death signifies defeat, disaster, lack of faith, or a poor self-image.  The “size” of their faith is limited to life in this world.

Other people have looked death in the face and do not seem afraid of it.  Their faith is something like this:  “I am with God here and I will be with God hereafter, because God deeply respects and cares about me.  And my family.  And the world God created.”

Their faith goes beyond this life and into whatever comes after we stop living in this body in this life on planet Earth (or the moon or wherever we might find ourselves in the future).  Death is not a defeat but a gateway, a transition time, an opporunity to get closer to God.

Granted, many religions use religious teaching to terrify people with the prospect of death.  They sling guilt, thunder denunciations and threaten punishment (rather than consequences).  And many of us have been brainwashed by such ranting, even when the ranting sounds sane and logical.  But. . .

What is God like?  Who has faith enough for the simple statement, “God is agape’ (love)?  That is the true measure of one’s faith.

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