Irony

You know it's funny. I created this account last year when my good friend Justin Scott was running for Student's Association president. His opponent had created a campaign blog to discuss "issues" of the race and platforms of his campaign. Well, nothing he said made sense, so my sarcastic nature got the best of me and I found my fingers itching to post a comment. With no intention to ever use this as a real blog, I titled it "confused voter" and left my comments for the opponent. Little did I know how apropos that title would become when I outgrew Xanga and finally succumbed to the blogger world.

This might be a bit drastic for my first post, but ever since a long talk with a good friend last night I can't really think about anything else. Maybe a big girl blog will help me get out my ideas that I feel I can't really talk about with many of my friends, for reasons you'll understand right...now:

Did Texas really pass an amendment to their state constitution that prevents the institution of marriage from including any type of relationship other than one between a man and a woman? Really? Let me first say that in no way do I "condone" homosexuality. I believe the Bible just like you do, I believe God intended marriage for a man and a woman and He intended sex to be between a man and a woman, within the context of marriage. But right now I'm feeling that maybe I understand the Bible a little differently than a lot of my "vote yes to the amendment!" peers. When Jesus came to seek and save the lost, he never mentioned coming to "seek, save, and make laws to hurt the lost." If we are to emulate Christ, and Christ came to love everyone, all of us, all of us who are sinners, how does creating a law that prohibits two people who love each other from lawfully making a lifelong commitment to each other show them the love of Christ? I'm not advocating gay marriage. I'm not implying that Christ would support gay marriage. I don't believe that at all. I'm questioning whether or not voting for such an amendment even remotely resembles what Christ calls us to do: Love.

I hear often that gay marriage destroys the family. Hmm...I could have sworn that it's divorce that destroys families. A heterosexual boy and a heterosexual girl can stupidly but legally get married at the age of 18 without giving the seriousness of marriage much thought, have a child, then divorce three years later. That's all legal. But a homosexual man and a homosexual man commit to be together for a lifetime, perhaps adopt an unwanted child, and remain in a monogomous relationship for the rest of their lives, while giving that child a "family" who loves him and supports him, and we are up in arms, disgusted with such an idea, trying to pass leglislation to make sure that doesn't happen. Wow. Is that backwards?

I don't have answers, and I hope I don't claim to. But I do have a Bible. And last time I read it, it told me to love my neighbor as myself. It told me to put on love over all other virtues, because love binds them all together in perfect unity. It told me to love each other deeply. It told me not to love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.

I get the feeling sometimes that God sees all of us like chickens running around with our heads cut off, thinking we know what we're doing and where we're going but really we just make fools of ourselves. He sees us promoting such amendments from the pulpit and in church bulletins. I see Him maybe shaking His head, saying "You don't even get it, do you?" On issues like this, I think we've made a mockery of what Jesus was trying to teach us.

I'm not a Texas resident and am therefore not registered to vote in Texas. Thank goodness. How is a Christian supposed to vote on issues like these? Either you vote to actively maintain what you think God's intentions for marriage are, or you vote to actively maintain the love of Christ. Yeah, I get that it's weird to pit those two against each other. But maybe we should give this whole idea a little more thought before we vote to amend constitutions.

So I've come pretty far around the circle, (I don't think I can call an ACU election and a state election a full circle quite yet) questioning Justin's opponent to questioning amendments against gay marriage. Told you I was a confused voter...