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No, You Cannot MAG
It is a new nation,
a nation that proudly proclaims:
“Yes we can.”
But what power holds “yes we can,”
when America has told many of our
brothers and sisters
“no, you cannot”?
You cannot follow your heart.
You cannot move forward.
You cannot take a hand.
You cannot break the mold.
“Marriage is a holy bond
for a man and a woman
it is not yours to taint,” they say.
Where is the future?
Relentlessly we must
keep striving for a better day.
We must stop this hatred
and bring about change in the
wake of defeat.
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And you are both forgetting that the Bible asks you to stone a man who cheats on his wife and to make a journey to Jerusalem to sacrifice animals every harvest.
I am Jewish (please can everyone NOT say that I belong in a gas oven, thank you) and I believe that you should follow the Bible, but you DO realize that it is just a set of guidelines? It's not something to follow word for word? At that point, it stops being about faith and starts being about obsession. And it has been translated and reworded so many times not even the most original copies can be trusted to be precisely G-d's word. So I hope that that at least makes you think for a second. I don't expect this to change your mind- not in the least! You're so set into your ways that not even G-d himself coming down to the Earth and telling you personally that you are wrong will change your mind.
In case you couldn't tell, I wholeheartedly support gay marriage and gay rights and I really do think that people who think otherwise are either total idiots or can't open their mind at all.
As much as I agree with you, I disagree on one point- marriage IS necessary. It's all good to be with someone and know you love each other, but actually being legally married gives people rights of being in the same family- instant knowledge of their whereabouts, being the first one allowed to see them in the hospital, being the legal parent of their child. That is why it is so crucial to give the right of marriage to gay as well as straight people. After all, doesn't everyone deserve equal rights?
I really agree with you on most of the comment, but I just thought I should point out that one thing.
