PurplePaganSarah’s Centrist World

I’m a lesbian and a Pagan. I honestly take offense to the idea of gay marriage for religious reasons. We LGBT folk are (very often) part of a movement that is proudly anti-establishment. Marriage is the ULTIMATE establishment concept. Why would any of us want to patronize it? Same sex marriage doesn’t weaken hetero-marriages, it actually *empowers* the status quo. Nobody ever chanted, ‘we’re here, we’re queer, and we want to be like you!’

There should most certainly be equality in the unions of any two people regardless of sex, but marriage, being a Judeo-Christian concept that was preempted by the government of our so-called ‘Christian Nation,’ is not an institution I want to be a part of. We should have civil unions that provide ALL of the same benefits as marriage and leave the religious overtones out of it!

In fact, ideally, instead of allowing gay marriage, we should offer civil unions for homo AND hetero couples that don’t feel Christian ‘values’ mesh with their core belilefs! Gay marriage is as paradoxical as the ‘Log Cabin Republicans.’

The concept of ‘marriage’ should be deserted altogether by the government in favor of the word ‘union’ and marriage should keep it’s place as a separate religious sacrament. I mean, come on, Pagans don’t get married, they get handfasted. Any sex and even any *number* of people can get handfasted. It’s a bond among spirits, not just two people of opposite sex getting a change in tax status and shared medical benefits for the perpetuation of the religious and governmental establishments seeking to churn out ‘good little taxpayers.’ Talk about limited scope!

SMS