Home of Poi: some people will they never just accept we're all just people

I agree with Lightning. If your definition of "anti-Christian" is "against Christianity being imposed as a state religion," (and a narrow vision of Christianity at that), then the ACLU is anti-Christian. So am I, in that sense. But so is everyone in the Episcopal Church where I sing every Sunday (well, not in the summer, it's hot as a Christian Hell in there), including the pastor. So is the bishop and (virtually) everyone in the diocese.

It's the age-old problem: when people are used to having special privilege, and you take away that special privilege away (even by granting it to others), the formerly-privileged feel discriminated against. This is natural and human but not rational.

Example: I had a Radical Feminist college professor once. All the guys I knew complained that she never let men speak, and that she ignored them completely. When I took her course, I kept track. She called on us men about a third of the time; since the class was 2/3 women this was exactly fair. Normally, you see, the men who complained could count on being called on in preference to any woman who might want to speak; they (incorrectly) perceived the loss of this privilege as discrimination.

Britney Spears is married for 55 hours, and that's sacred before God. Del Martin lives with the same woman for 50 years (yes, that's fifty years) and that's some sort of travesty? Sorry, that's just plain ridiculous.

Did you know that the current Christian marriage ceremony derives from blessings of "special friendships" between same-sex people? These ceremonies were done in the physical church building, because they were about love. Marriages, which were primarily about property (marriage for love is a very recent phenomenon), could not usually take place in the church. Yes, even the part about being allowed to kiss only after the ceremony was complete was originally between two men, or more rarely between two women.

There was a guy in California who died because his partner of many years wasn't allowed to donate part of his liver to save him. Why not? He wasn't a "relative," which a legal spouse would have been. (The lover won his suit, but it was too late.) More commonly, it's much cheaper to get insurance as a couple than as two individuals, and if only one has income (frex if one is sick or a stay-at-home dad), married couples often pay lower taxes, too.

So if you're opposed to same-sex marriage, I will tell you that you lack a historical perspective; that you lack compassion (wasn't that a Christian virtue until recently?); and that you want us to continue to be economically exploited, yea verily unto death.

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"If you didn't like something the first time, the cud won't be any good either." --Elsie the Cow, Ruminations

Some people will they never just accept we're all just people