In 2008, Floridians approved the constitutional amendment known as Proposition 2 and the Marriage Protection Amendment. Proposition 2 protects marriage as the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife and provides that no other legal union that is treated as marriage shall be recognized. As a result, same-sex marriages are not recognized in Florida.
Same-sex marriage always seem to be a hot topic around election times. Political hopefuls love to use this issue as key talking points to sway votes into their corner. If federal legislation would be put forth that government institutions will only recognize civil unions, at that point, the same-sex marriage issue can be put to rest and can no longer be used as fuel to drive political campaigns. If same-sex couples continue to be denied the same rights that others enjoy, equal rights will never be anything more than an idea rather than an actual right that is defended by our own Constitution.
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Their casual presumptions could not have been further from the truth, however. Legally ending a civil partnership has never been any more complex than the act of disbanding a marriage and, following the introduction of new court forms and procedures earlier this year, the process of filing for dissolution of a civil partnership is nigh on identical to that which is used to file for divorce. No, I support same sex marriage for exactly the same reason as my friends: a belief in a progressive society that promotes equality. A society that recognises that the love that exists between homosexual couples is just as worthy of recognition as the love that exists within heterosexual couples. A society that realises that only allowing same sex couples to engage in civil partnerships and not marriages is insufficient, discriminatory and - Gays Men in spite of the potentially divisive nature of the comment - segregationist.
The debate on gay marriage has brought out the worst (and also occasionally the best) in today's theological discussions and sermonizing. Let's be very clear on this point: gay marriage is too important to be left to clergymen. Making gay marriage legal marginalizes these thought-challenged theologians without diminishing their rights.
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After listening to all this, I realized that there is a push from both sides, and that it really is not in the best interest of our nation to display all this animosity and anger over this issue in our national politics. It seems to be ripping apart our national dialogue and decaying the online conversation as well. Now then, those are the realities that I see right now, and I have traveled to every city in the United States of America by motorhome over a 7-year period, so I am well aware of the challenges that the clash of these lifestyles have on society.
Adultery Vs. Homosexuality: Cage Match! Just to put things in perspective, try doing a quick search over at BibleGateway for the two words. Different translations slightly skew the results but even the anti-gay picketers would have to admit that the Bible has a lot more to say about adultery than it does homosexuality. It strikes me as odd that the church should come down so hard on this type of illegitimate union when 2nd, 3rd, and even 14th marriages just get a head-shaking sigh. After all, it was adultery (not homosexuality) that made it in the big ten chiseled on stone at Mt. Sinai... coming in at number seven. And, before we start looking down on these horrible adulterers, we should hear what Jesus (the one whose judgement counts) considers to be adultery: "It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.' But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery." And if that doesn't seem bleak enough for you: "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Mark 5)This face off between adultery & homosexuality was just a gimmick to try illustrating the fact that we're all on the same sinking ship Men Seeking Men For Sex of sin. If adultery doesn't hit your heart, replace it with the biggest thorn in your flesh. Anyone who claims any merit outside of Christ is on dangerous ground. And really, only those who believe they have no sin should worry (but those "holy people" won't read this far anyway).
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What is also never mentioned in these proclamations about the sanctity of marriage is that nearly fifty percent of marriages in the United States end in divorce; this percentage continues to rise. Additionally, an equally large Meet Local Gay Men percentage of babies are born out of wedlock. Data from the National Center for Health Statistics showed, in 2007, forty percent of babies born in the US were delivered from unwed mothers.
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By making the practice of homosexuality the focal point, one makes behavior (and sin) the focus. Thus, the one in need of God's grace interprets that to mean he has to clean up his behavior before God will accept him, a misunderstanding of monumental proportions! Because it is ONLY by God's grace (through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone who gives eternal life as a free gift to those who believe Him for it) in which a person can enter into an eternal relationship How To Meet Gay Men with God, this misunderstanding-perpetuated by the undue focus on behavior-could very well keep the person from accepting God's gracious offer of eternal life.
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