Instead of debating whether or not same sex marriage is an abomination, is anyone on Fluther planning to have a same sex wedding, or attend one (cause it's legal now, so it doesn't matter whether anyone thinks it's an abomination or not)?
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June 28th, 2015
I’ve read so many lines of scripture in the past few days, my eyes are going all blurry.
It doesn’t make one damned bit of difference whether there are people who think same sex marriage is an abomination, or an affront to their religion (which is silly because their religion hasn’t changed at all since two days ago, certainly not due to same sex marriage becoming legal).
In the United States of America, it is now legal, in a secular manner, for same sex couples to get married. They don’t need a church to get married. They needed a law and they got it!
Now that there is a law, and religion and an churches have nothing to do with it one way or the other, because it is a Federal law, not based on religion (and that’s the way our laws work, and that’s the way it should be, thanks to the separation of church and state) is anyone planning a same sex wedding? Is anyone planning on attending someone else’s same sex wedding? Are you excited?
One of my Facebook friends put it succinctly when asked how same sex marriage would affect her. She said there’d be more cake. Exactly!
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All the weddings I have on my calendar for this year are male/female, but I attended a same-sex marriage two years ago in New York (where marriage equality has been the law since 2011). As far as I know, the state is still there and no one has been consumed by hellfire.
I was at a same sex wedding at the weekend. I’m in the UK so it’s probably not as big a deal here nowadays as it is in the States but I was so pleased to celebrate the fact that my best friend was able to marry her now wife.
Yup. I am officiating my niece’s wedding in November.
No but if anyone wants to invite me I’ll be there!
I will probably end up getting married (to another man) some day; it’s something I’ve always pictured.
I have a couple of good friends who are the same sex and are married. Their marriage happened before the “legalization”, but everyone in our circles of friends recognized it.
I’m thrilled with the outcome of the court case, but I think your question isn’t quite right.
Legality is one thing, quite separate from whether same sex marriage is an abomination. An abominations is fundamentally a religiously motivated value judgment, regardless of legality.
A simple example: I’m Jewish and love eating bacon. Bacon is legal, but the orthodox jews (and for that matter Moslems) consider bacon an abomination.
So being religiously offended is a choice (being offended IS a choice), and legal status is immaterial.
@elbanditoroso “So being religiously offended is a choice (being offended IS a choice), and legal status is immaterial.”
Maybe, but @Kardamom‘s point was that the religious offense some people take to marriage equality is now immaterial to its legal status, which hasn’t been the case for the past two and a half centuries.
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