Clergy Rally in Support Of Same-Sex Marriage
Jun 3, 2009
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From the Washington Post:
A diverse coalition of more than 100 clergy gathered in a Southeast Washington church yesterday to show their support for same-sex marriages in the District.
"We declare that our faith calls us to affirm marriage equality for loving, same-sex couples," said the Rev. Dennis Wiley, pastor of the Covenant Baptist Church, as he stood in the pulpit of his church before religious leaders from all eight wards of the city.
The clergy, who have formed a group called D.C. Clergy United for Marriage and Equality, plan to challenge the efforts of a more conservative group of pastors who are pushing for a referendum on same-sex marriage. Last month, the D.C. Council voted to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, and some council members plan to introduce a bill to allow the marriages to be performed in the District. Some members of Congress have said they will attempt to block same-sex marriage from becoming legal in the District.
No doubt most readers here feel that that statement if mad from the perspective of orthodox Christianity, Islam and Judaism, Buddhism (his liberal supporters are uncomfortable with the Dalai Lama's censure of homosexuality; he's said, "...the other holes don't produce life").
The points against, against God's Law, against nature, detrimental to society, detrimental to children, etc., detrimental to the health of practicing homosexuals, etc., are found here and there, but a more compelling integration of them all is needed, one that couldn't simply be dismissed as conservative, closed-minded, anachronistic, bigoted.
It's often said that secular society is on the verge of turning against believers. But it only turns for real when it's been confronted with truth that is knows, can't accept, and can no longer respond with argument.
Besides works such as 'Theology of the Body', it doesn't seem that a compelling assessment of human sexuality, human nature and the concept of perversion (not meant pejoratively, but in reference to function) and their histories has been formed by believers in a manner that causes the hearers to focus on themselves rather than on believers as an objectionable group.