NC Marriage Amendment a Response

Hmmmm

What do you do when you must face 6 in 10 people in your home state that have voted for an amendment to the state constitution that based on archaic religious grounds makes you a second class citizen?

Yesterday the voters of North Carolina overwhelmingly approved a poorly worded and ill-conceived amendment to the state constitution banning all forms of union except that of one between a man and a woman. The religious in droves went to the poll upholding the mores of the Old Testament whilst all but ignoring the good news that Jesus Christ brought in the New Testament. That Good News fulfilled the Old and in the words of Christ, “Finished it.” More succinctly, “It is done.”

Yes indeed it is done, but too many “followers” haven’t gotten the message. That being do unto others as you would have them do unto you; love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and soul and love your neighbors as you love yourself. Clearly in North Carolina this didn’t happen. A majority here as in most places are mired in the rigid religiosity of the Jewish Bible and to that end they will abrogate and deny equal protection under the law to their neighbors, co-workers, friends and family members.

The will do to the least what was done to Christ and they will feel smug and justified in doing so and that is terribly sad and immoral. Ironically those who voted to amend will feel most moral and will often pat themselves on their collective backs in self-congratulation for taking the moral high ground.

They will forget that during Jim Crow those who instituted and upheld terrible, abusive laws often behaved the same way. They felt justified in harming those considered to be lesser and less worthy. So until the masses in North Carolina and the world can get to a place where they truly understand that Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender people do not make a decision to be what they are; then the collective we will have to find some way to cope and endure through these most difficult, painful and hurtful days.

There is immense anger and hurt today in North Carolina, although many of us aren’t much surprised, scratch the surface and look closely and one sees a society that is ignorant, bigoted and prejudice in a whole spectrum of beliefs. Our hate and intolerance abuses those on the margins, those different, those painted as wicked and the only way to combat that hate is steadfast resolve and the moral high ground.