Same sex marriages and the involvement of the church...

Well, can’t sleep. No big shocker there. My mind gets caught in a loop on a subject and I can’t let it go. I usually write when I get here. So I’m thinking about Marriage Equality and the Church’s involvement in stopping same sex unions. I really can’t believe that we call ourselves a free country when we have citizens that can’t experience the full rights and responsibilities of being a citizen. One person’s rights end where another person’s begin. That’s it. End of Story.

Here’s my problem. I was raised Catholic and there is no doubt I’ve been on both sides of the fence when it comes to God. I lost a child. You’re not going to find someone who has been through what I have without having a beef with the Almighty. Suffice it to say, however, I believe that the core of my moral foundation comes from Catholicism and I believe that it is a strong foundation.

That being the definition of my belief for a strong foundation, I have to say it is true that a person can live their life to the letter of man’s law and be utterly corrupt of morality. You can commit adultery without breaking the law. You can lie without breaking the law. You can covet without breaking the law. You can kill without breaking the law (Military.) You can have false Gods before Him and not break the law. La de da de da! Etc…

That being said, I have a personal a definable grudge against the Church’s involvement in stopping same sex unions. First, I believe that there is nothing immoral about same sex unions but more importantly, they have a moral obligation to abide by God’s law. God’s law states “Matthew 25:40- And the King will make answer and say to them, truly I say to you, because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.”

Although it is difficult the write, I have been the least of these and I have been turned away. After my child passed within a year of the death of both of my parents, I had no one to answer to except myself. I moved to New York City, something I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid. I took a temp job after being unable to find a “real” job. I broke my arm requiring two surgeries and was “laid off” on the day I was supposed to return due to budget cuts. Being laid off from a job I was grossly under-employed at in the first place and not being able to find another one left me unable to pay the rent. It left me unable to live. Having nowhere else to go, I spent a week sleeping, sort of, on the streets of the City.

I went everywhere for assistance, including every church affiliation I could think of. I was told over and over again that there was no money and yet million of dollars in church money was spent to stop same sex marriages from being legal per man’s law in California. How can the church justify forsaking God’s law in favor of man’s law? How can the church justify spending a single dime on stopping the rights of a human being based on a judgment of morality when they are being immoral by turning God, represented by the least of me, away? What kind of precedent does that send to those who place their moral trust in the church? It’s okay to walk over human beings in the street to put your money on hate.

I always thought God was being instructional anyway …Thou shall not lay with mankind as with womankind? It is true. Someone has to flip over. Crass, I know, but it could be. People in these times weren’t big talkers about things of a sexual nature and perhaps they would have needed a little explanation. No mention of women because God knew they could figure it out. Suffice it to say I’m getting loopy from a lack of sleep. Off to bed now. It is time.