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04/17/2015

Maggie Gallagher won't toast you while you trap your spouse in sin

by Jeremy Hooper

Here's what Maggie Gallagher, doyenne of the marriage discrimination movement in America, says she would say to a loved one who invited her to a gay wedding:

Screen Shot 2015-04-17 At 12.40.09 Pm Here’s what I think. We are born male and female, and marriage is the union of husband to wife that celebrates the necessity of the two genders’ coming together to make the future happen. I know you don’t think that. I know the law no longer thinks that. But I have staked my life on this truth.

The problem for me in celebrating your gay wedding, as much as I love you, is that I would be witnessing and celebrating your attempt not only to commit yourself to a relationship that keeps you from God’s plan but, worse, I would be witnessing and celebrating your attempt to hold the man you love to a vow that he will avoid God’s plan. To vow oneself to sin is one thing, to try to hold someone you love to it — that’s not something I can celebrate.

And I would be party to the idea that two men can make a marriage, which I do not believe.

On your happy day you should be surrounded by people who can honor your vow and help you keep it. I can’t do that.

“Porneia” is a word in the Bible that has been much mistranslated. But I think it means a sexual relationship that cannot by its nature become a marriage. That’s why Christ said that marriage is forever, unless it is porneia.

I understand that you might well want to rupture our friendship over this, my honest view. I choose to love you both and keep you in my life.

But let us somehow against all odds find a way to love each other as we are, and not how each of us would wish the other to be.

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Which leads to only one important question: would she still send a gift?

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*ALOS: I think it's funny how Maggie gets snarky in her piece about the media asking presidential candidates about marriage, as if their priorities are out of whack. Um, I'm pretty sure that was both your obsession and *demand* for many years, Maggie.

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