Will there be same-sex marriage on a federal level in my lifetime (now that I am easily more than halfway through it)? I doubt it.
Witness the latest nominee to the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, who says quite bluntly that “there is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.”
For this reason, à quoi bon state level marriage if it is not recognised across the country? So one can live in Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa and New Hampshire in same-sex marriage and that is it.
For the time being, however, same-sex couples still have to file single tax returns on the federal level, go through immigration and customs as though they have no family member travelling with them and countless other indignities.
Like a broken record, all I can ask is, 'Of what are people so afraid? If opposite-sex marriage is so fragile that it needs to be protected from the gays, then there is something wrong here.' Until we do our homework on what marriage is and is not, we are not going to advance in this stalemate.
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“The Windsor report. It’s just a report. When did it become like the Bible? The Covenant. Why do we need another Covenant? We have the Baptismal Covenant. We have the Creeds. What else do we need?” Bishop Martín Barahona, former Primate of la Iglesia de la Región de Central América and Bishop of the Iglesia Anglicana Episcopal de El Salvador
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- I am a life-long Episcopalian, who has been ordained since 1993. I was rector of a family-size congregation from 1994-2008 and and ended three years as priest in partnership at a pastoral-size congregation in Vermont's fourth-largest city (Rutland) in 2011. Now I am vicar of a tiny congregation in the Green Mountains of Vermont. I am involved in church governance at the diocesan, church-wide and international Anglican levels. I was a member of a CREDO faculty team working with the clergy and lay leaders of l'Eglise Episcopale d'Haiti. I also try to go to El Salvador a few times a year and am officially Canon Missioner of the Anglican Episcopal Church of El Salvador (since 2004). In 2007, I finished the 1570 km Chemin de Saint Jacques/Camino de Santiago de Compostela. I greatly enjoy hiking in the Vermont Greens and NH Whites and reflect on those hikes. In 2010 I also completed walking the 273 mile-long Long Trail in the Green Mountains of Vermont... maybe next the Appalachian Trail? Lastly but most important, I am a cat-fanatic. (N.B. Whatever I post here does not reflect either the opinions of my congregation or of The Episcopal Church but merely those of an individual.)
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3 comments:
It is almost impossible to argue with a person who is bitterly opposed to same sex marriage. Asked how my marriage might affect theirs (straight or ss), they walk away. When religion is brought up and marriage involving atheists is mentioned, they walk away. When asked if marriages done outside a church are valid, they walk away. I'm convinced that the first thought that occurs to others is about anal sex which they believe is horrible, sinful, scary resulting in automatic brain shutdown. I'm afraid all the logic or appeal to decency or justice will never work with many. They just have to die off. Or many more have to leave the closet now forcing the issue.
I think the possibilities of fear and loathing lifting are real...afterall, it´s hard to keep thinking people of different colors are ¨different¨ if you know, and sometimes even love, a person of a different color/culture...the very ¨loathing¨ of whole groups of humanity (from either side) is a example of lack of communication, integration and acceptance equals humility...saying NO to injustice, abuse, exploitation, persecution and blind fear and hate must happen in order to stop the madness (and it is madness)...the secret lies in the ¨knowing¨ and not it the ¨not knowing¨...vertical (mostly) and inclusive (mostly) interaction is something that LGBT know best...LGBT Christians/others are way ahead of the rest of humanity on the getting-to-know-and-love oneanother REAL LIFE EXPERIENCED curve. LGBT bring a whole new (mostly) point of view on the subject of growing away from the ugliness of fear=segregation=difference=outcasting and the ever popular human emotional hideout of playing pretend. REALITY just takes some getting used to and then the fear WILL/DOES fall away.
Feh.
Is she the best we can do? It seems Obama's middle of the road is far too conservative for me.
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