Gay Marriage

I have been getting a lot of inquires from some of you regarding a statement I made in a previous entry, so I am going to clear everything up.

To those of you who do not know what I am talking about, here is the entry:

-Once again, I think President Bush missed the mark on this as I completely support Gay Marriage (Again, too long of a discussion for this space, will revisit in a future entry).

Well, today is that future entry.

Yes, I am a conservative, yes, I support gay marriage and no, I am not joking.

I know that this does not jibe with what many of you believe to be “True Conservatism”, but I respectfully disagree.

Before I discuss this further, I would like to point out that I am not discussing this as a spiritual or religious issue, rather as a political one.

When you look at the Left versus the Right, liberals versus conservatives, Democrats versus Republicans or however way you want to view the political spectrum there is one fundamental difference between both sides.

That difference?

More government versus less government. Liberals want more, Conservative want less.

It’s really as simple as that. Nearly every position that liberals and conservatives take stem from that very difference.

So, being a conservative, how else could I view a government’s ban of an entire group of people’s ability to participate in an activity that they wish to enjoy as anything other than more government control over our lives?

As a result of this belief, I recognize the support of gay marriage as being a conservative approach to this issue, rather than a liberal approach.

You may snicker, shake your head and/or disagree with me all you want, but, based on that rationale, I am taking a consistent and objective stance on this issue.

Now as we all know, complete objectivity is difficult to achieve when discussing politics. It’s even more difficult to do so when discussing matters of the heart.

This issue is both, so let’s throw out objectivity for a moment and just speak about this, actually speak about it without labels like Republicans or liberals, but merely as people.

I want you to think of your greatest source of love right now. It could be a husband or wife, boyfriend or girlfriend, child, grandparent, whatever it is to you, I want you to think about them.

Please take a moment and think about how much that person means to you and how much joy and happiness they’ve brought you.

Now I want you to think how difficult it would be if a group of people made a law prohibiting you from loving that person in the manner in which you want.

Think about how that would make you feel. That a group of people that you have never met said that you and the person you love most in this life cannot be together because your love is “different”, “unnatural” or even a “sin”.

I cannot think of many things in this life that would be worse than that.

Now, I have a question to those that support a ban on gay marriage and I want you to, please, be honest when you answer it to yourself, why do you care?

Why do you care if loving homosexuals marry each other? What difference does it make on your life? Does it really have any impact whatsoever?

If not, why do you support this stance?

I’ve had this discussion with numerous people and I’ve heard all of the same responses…

“It’s not natural”

Well, the homosexuals that I have met and know that were born gay would respectfully disagree with that.

“Well, they can’t conceive children”

So what? Since when is bearing children a necessity in marriage. By that rationale, all of the heterosexual couples that cannot or wish not to have children should have their marriages voided as well.

“It’s an assault on traditional marriage”

How? How is it possibly undermining the traditional form of marriage between a man and a woman?

Listen, I don’t like how the Leftist gay community approaches resistance to their cause with pornographic and disrespectful demonstrations, but I recognize that that is a vocal minority of the group.

I believe that most homosexuals are just normal people that want to live their lives in a normal fashion with the man or woman they love, just like the rest of us.

It is because of this and my understanding of the differences between more and less government that I support gay marriage.

I hope I have sufficiently cleared everything up for all of you.

That’s all for now folks. Until next time, take care and be well.

-John