This essay is perhaps the last in an occasional series I have written since the New Year, which can be read here and here. Gay marriage as of June 26th is now legal in the United States. What has changed—and what has not?
If public opinion drives public policy, then the motivation for banning same-sex marriage was moral disapproval, religious disapproval—and the belief that God was not “on the side” of the homosexuals and had cast homosexuals as sinners in the faith choice of the person formulating the public policy critique. Public discourse —based on religious formulations such as “sinner” and what “God intended” had been the primary agents erected into state law to ban the LGBTIQ population from civil rights—such as marriage.
Religious sentiment, such as “you are a sinner” should not make the case for legal judgment. In fact, it was unconstitutional.
Love the Sinner. Hate the Sin. Continue reading “Spouses for Life by Marie Cartier”
Feminism and Religion 