A Rant

Before we begin I wish to apologize for two things, first the lag in bloging. I am late and really do plan to post at least once a week, second, for the angry tone that you may find here. I was hoping to wait until March before writing anything to upsetting just to give us all a break after the election madness. However every time I have tried to write a witty amusing blog the subject of this one has given me writers block. I am pissed and need to vent. I will still try to be polite here BUT I am venting to cure writers block and can’t promise to be nice. Also I WANT the people I am angry at to know I am mad and why.
So why am I so pissed? Well see there was this little thing called Proposition 8. It was used to ban gay marriage in Ca. I covered it in Nov. in that post I discussed how religious marriage and state partnership should be separate. I tried to allow for everyone’s beliefs. So then in Dec. 6 issue of Newsweek I read this, http://www.newsweek.com/id/172653. (Go ahead and read it I’ll wait….Done? Then onward). Now I am pissed at every one of you who used the Bible as an excuse to vote for this hateful Proposition. IF you voted based on the Leviticus in the Old Testament, but you eat shrimp, and sleep with your spouse when the female is menstruating, then you are a hypocrite as well as being the SAME type of abomination as the men who sleep with men. You also have NO leg to stand on for stopping woman on woman action. IF you believe that Christ released you from the outdated rules of Leviticus then you have NO Bible based reason to be opposed to gay marriage. If you can show me where Christ or any of his apostles said “Marriage is one man and one woman” then I will apologize until then I hold you in contempt for lying to the world about what your savior said.
Here’s the thing, I like the Christian religion. It is beautiful and loving. Like a lot of religions it has rules. The rules are in a book. As I understand it ALL the rules come from the Bible. So as some one who doesn’t read passages from the book on a weekly basis I trust the people who are supposed to when they tell me there is something in the book. If you tell me that you can’t eat shrimp or work on the Sabbath and then tell me it’s in the Bible I will trust you on that. I don’t usually ask for the passage, I trust you to represent your religion honestly. When it effects me more directly I may ask to see the passage but that is a rare happening. So when you tell me that to you Homosexuality is bad because it’s in the Bible I tend to believe you even if I disagree. Even if it means you support a proposition that hurts people I care about, I will let it slide the same way I won’t make you eat the yummy and good for you sea food. I do have a problem when you force your views on marriage on even non Christians. However if you tell me it’s a moral issue, from the Bible, then I at least can think that your intentions are good. If you are lying about what is your book then you are scum who lies in order to cause pain. I don’t care why you did it. Either you lied when you told me what was in the Bible or you lied when you claimed to be Christian enough to have actually read it. Either way you have now taken an action that caused pain to gay couples and lied about why. If you use the Bible lie to support you’re causing of that pain then you will suffer what ever fate those who distort the Word of God to cause pain are meant to suffer. Further more I will now treat you with the lack of trust and respect a person who lies about there morals and beliefs deserves. That is to say the only reason I don’t spit on you is because you are not worth the spit. I despise the hatful distortion of political control you have turned a beautiful religion in to. I no longer have respect for ANY ONE who claims that keeping gay people from getting married comes from the Bible. IF I am shown scripture I may take it back and apologize, but until then you are false Christians with no true reason to be causing this pain. I am sick and tired of being treated like I am immoral for supporting gay marriage by people who are immoral enough to lie about their religion.
If your reason for supporting prop 8 is not based on the Bible then we disagree but you are not necessarily scum. I hope you have a good reason for keeping people who love each other apart, cause if you don’t then you ARE indeed scum, but at least you don’t lie about what your religion says.
So until someone shows me where in the Bible Jesus or one of his Apostils actually said marriage equals one man and one woman, I am going to treat all who spread that lie like the immoral untrustable lying scum they are.
Rant over lets hope the next Blog is a happy one
Bradleyman