Where is the love?

Let's be honest with ourselves...

The current cultural war between christian conservatives and everyone else isn't going to be won with words, or laws, or much of anything. If there is anything that can be learned from the war of cultures in Israel is that differences in opinion will last forever and always be a contentious battle at the frontline. So really, our current debates have more to do with how to pass time than solving the issues. If you don't believe me, see if they drew blood in Jerusalem over a parking lot and religion.

Now, to weigh in on a current battle in the culture war...

In this corner, Dan Savage, etc. And in this corner, i don't know who he is but his last name sounds like Klingon, etc. I'm not going to link to articles and words they have published. There's too much. We can sum it up though with Dan Savage on the side of expanded social equality (ie: gay marriage), and the other for a more, homophobic viewpoint.

There has been this growing tend among conservatives to suggest that gay rights will somehow hurt the women-folk. Oh won't someone think of the women and children. I truly have no concept of what this argument entails but I'm guessing it is something akin to: if there were social equality for the LGBTetc community, the kids wouldn't be content with a conservative normalised heterosexual pairing and instead, the boys would shun their women-folk for some good old fashioned (but now accepted) homosexuality. I just can't buy that. I'm positive that neither the world is so simplistic nor are our viewpoints so frail as to collapse but for some tedious legal footwork.

In truth, (and I should have disclosed, i'm still a pinko lefty politically speaking), I'm more akin to agree with what Dan is selling: Gay Marriage will benefit gays and only gays. I wouldn't be so naive as to deny that there are still some people out there that live a deceitful life married to a spouse they are not attracted to at the basic gender level. Nor would I suggest that marriage equality would end such loveless marriages.

Allowing people to have an honest conversation about who they are and who they are attracted to isn't a bad thing. That makes more sense than quoting a story that involves incest, angels, and salt. Allowing people to marry whom they love will probably help reduce divorce rates, and probably will have a greater benefit to women than quoting Lot and bashing someone's personal choices. Besides, I don't think you can claim the moral high ground if your allies in the cause are caught having multiple affairs. Isn't there a saying about stones and glass houses?