The Chick Fil A Flap

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

When I was in school, I was taught to be able to summarize other people's perspectives, to make their arguments for them--if even to dismantle them: whether it was Marx, Freud, Nietzche, Baldwin, or St. Paul. You reduce that effort to blah blah blah blah and y'all now think you just have to recycle lame arguments (shellfish! two men can have babies!) without having to actually think and understand and analyze because you think that you are so brilliant that this "hole" you have found is somehow utterly destructive (as if these things were not things that 2000 years of theology had considered--it's ludicrous). Nobody who lists the films I listed has a "problem" with this lifestyle. I only have a problem with stupid people.

I can assure you that when my husband and I were struggling with infertility, people telling us to pray for a miracle, or "Sarah had her baby when she was 90!" was no joke. I realize I am swerving off topic, but the "miracle" in my story is the way my daughter was brought to me. Not that God saw fit to re-grow my fallopian tubes.

I am formally educated (masters level), though not in theology. So while I consider myself somewhat intelligent, I don't claim to be above average and I am struggling with understanding your viewpoint. Maybe you could "dumb it down" for me? You want a better argument supporting same sex marriage than what you're seeing here, in this forum? Meaning, better than the shellfish/infertility stuff? You mentioned, " hope, faith in the future, Love." Procreation is not the only way a loving, committed couple can express faith and hope in the future. There will always be plenty of heterosexuals around, reproducing. My hope for the future is that anyone (heterosexual and homosexual) can be in a loving, committed, and legal relationship. To be allowed to raise their children with love and hope. I'm not sure what more there is. Why isn't that enough?