Insert a Trite Metaphor for a Corral #103

Posted on June 26, 2011 in Roundup

You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. – Bonnie Prudden

Same sex marriage. I think the main reason why churches are losing it over the legalization of same sex marriage is that, now, by refusing to perform them they look bad. The congregations that they have steadily built and milked for tithes may be fine with the policies at the present, but eventually the population is going to shift and they won’t be filling the pews like they used to. Gay couples and folks like me and my wife who do not feel our marriage is reduced by same sex marriage will seek other venues. The numbers will be small at first, but as time passes they will grow and the mega-churches will feel the crunch if they don’t adjust.

We gave some thought to not marrying until gay and lesbian couples could do the same, but in 1988, we knew it was going to be a long wait. In the intervening years, our marriage of intense comradeship has been devalued by those who insist that marriage is for procreation. Nonetheless, we have stayed the course and remained committed to each other through financial difficulty and my mental illness. I would call that a real marriage, though I wonder each day why Lynn puts up with me.

I want to state that I agree with President Obama’s assessment: Same sex marriage needs to be taken up as a state issue. This won’t result in a broad stroke of change that many earnestly require for their political excitability, but it does remind us of where the roots of our activism must direct themselves. It is the local governments who are screwing us up. Witness Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Michigan for three. Staying at home in 2010 has meant granting power to a downright evil cluster of organizations. They now control the reins for 2012. We will have to fight harder to defeat them as they try to put the fix in.

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