After several months of praying and battling with myself over whether or not I should continue to support gay marriage, I've decided it's the right thing to do. I carefully followed both sides and did research on both arguments and logically, it just makes more sense. First of all, I don't believe that a religion should dictate how people should live their lives. I've never been okay with forcing religious beliefs on anyone.
I believe that people should live their lives according to their religion and convictions but never force anyone to live according to those beliefs, it's just not right. That is why we have freedom of religion.
I believe that we should be encouraging gays to live monogomous lives, mainly for the health of society, and the only way to accomplish that is through marriage.
I'm against religions encouraging gays to marry someone of the opposite sex because one of two things will happen. Either the marriage will fail and end in divorce or it will continue to be a bad marriage and in the case of children, neither is healthy.
Finally, I don't believe that allowing gays to marry will make straight marriage less meaningful.
That comes from within the marriage, not from who marries and who doesn't. If we want to strangthen marriage, we need to focus on our current straight marriages that are failing miserably.
This post is just an explanation of how I've come to my decision and is not meant to prove others wrong. Maybe I'm wrong but I'm just going with my convictions.
June 2019 Reads
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2 comments:
My only real quarrel of logic with your argument is that marriage isn't the only way to encourage gays to live monogamous lives, there are also civil unions that confer the same set of legal rights on the relationship. It may not be called marriage, but it has the same legal binding power.
But I'm glad you have a strong opinion and that you have informed yourself on the issue. I would only encourage you to search the LDS website to see what has been said on the topic. I think that would complement the information you have already taken in.
Thanks for expressing your opinion. I actually came to the same conclusion as you.
Brian: I've thought a lot about the civil union options, and ultimately decided that I don't support it. For me, it becomes a separate-but-equal type argument. I'm opposed to creating a different institution to serve the same legal purpose—especially if there's a possibility that sexuality is an immutable characteristic.
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