God Is Love: Thoughts On Gay Marriage

“God is Love!” I join with the apostle John in remembering this truth. “Everything you do should be done in love.” I join with the apostle Paul in striving to live this truth. “Every minute build in more generous love to others.” I join with the apostle Peter in developing this truth. “As you are loved, Love!” I join with our Lord Jesus the Christ in being shaped by this truth.

Love is not a means to an end. Love is the means and the end. Love is the practice that will identify those who are the Kingdom of God. Love is a citizenship, that must pervade every element of praxis in a reborn life.

It is because of this I have stood at odds for a very long time with many people I love dearly in conservative Christianity over the issue of 'Gay Marriage.' I do not take anyone to task on their reading of and understanding of the Bible. However, I can not understand how reading a book, that calls it's followers to be a people defined by love one could ever use it as a source to demonize any class of people.

If YHWH God is love, and his are people who are known by their love; then Christianity's politicized campaign against gay marriage has cost her very identity. It is as impossible to tell a person they are “Love by God” and campaign to deny them of any civil rights, as it would be to tell a hungry man, “be warm and well fed” and leave him to starve.

I am reminded of the words of Jesus who said, “Be compassionate, as the Lord your God is compassionate.” This call to compassion must be as enveloping as the very compassion of God.

I am aware that many people who have heard countless Christian leaders press how 'Gay Marriage' is the most pressing issue to the church today may be very offended by this post. I accept that a post like this is not a perfect forum for such discussion. I ask two things if this offends you; first check out this website (http://kbow.us/Y3pN) and read the words of the actual people affected by this. Secondly, feel free to think you need to correct me, that's right if you would like to discuss this in an actual human context please let me know, and I will listen to your reasons why love is not the issue and I will dialouge back with why the issue is love.

I close by going back to the beginning.

Love is not a means to an end. Love is the means and the end. Love is the practice that will identify those who are the Kingdom of God. Love is a citizenship, that must pervade every element of praxis in a reborn life.

“God is Love”

Partial Birth Abortion Ban Upheld

I know that many people feel I am not a "real" libertarian because I am firmly Pro-Life. In this I mean that I feel abortion is in 100% of all cases murder. I believe in time that mankind will one day look back on our abortion on demand lifestyle and find it as offensive and inhumane as the segregation of slavery that previously preyed upon a voiceless section of our society.

I am also a realist and feel that these changes, must come through a re-education of people. People must see the sanctity of human life, not from a "Religious" argument, but from a "humanist moral" argument, which is a perfectly convincing and scientifically valid argument. For this reason I respect and support the work of abort73 for being a leader in presenting these arguments. I am not for an overturn of Roe V Wade until people understand the moral and philosophical arguments that mandate we recognize the rights and personhood of unborn persons equally to those of born persons.

There is a great money making machine behind the abortion rights industry that thrives off the deception about and the ignorance toward the personhood of the unborn. It is with great celebration that everyone who values HUMAN LIFE in all it's forms should be filled as our Supreme Court has deemed that one particular form of this civil rights violation is beyond the acceptable behavior of a humane society.