Ang Ladlad reminds Pacquiao: Be careful on gay remarks

It is supremely ironic that it is the gays and lesbians who seem to understand what it means to get married – that this is a commitment and partnership between two people who love each other, in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer and till death do they part.

And yet, we have men and women who pervert and abuse marriage by betraying their wedding vows, by getting married and divorcing five minutes later, by breaking up families.  We have marital rape and children used in a tug of war between mothers and fathers.  Conversely, we also have people who are so selfish that they use the so-called unbreakable vows of marriage as an excuse not to terminate a relationship that is long over and keep reopening emotional wounds that should have long healed.

When I think of gays and lesbians getting married, I think of the picture of that old lesbian couple who were the first in line to get married when they legalized gay marriage in New York.  One of them was already in a wheelchair.  Both of them were already silver haired and yet the love between them was so tangible, I felt blessed looking at them. 

I am a straight woman and I often think that this is God’s way of telling us what we are missing.  And it saddens me that so-called Christians use this as an excuse to quote Bible verses and shout damnation at a bunch of people who aren’t even hurting anyone, who simply want to be together and have the same rights as heterosexual couple do. 

Any time you guys want to get all Biblical, please recall that Jesus Himself was a radical who challenged what was current Jewish thoughts, laws and beliefs.  He knew what was happening then and is still happening now.  You’re all so caught up in the letter of the law that you’re missing its spirit. 

Let’s keep an open mind.  Gays and lesbians getting married and raising children isn’t the threat to “family values” you’re all thinking about.  It is the couples who constantly fight in front of their children, abuse their spouses AND their kids that are the real threat. 

Careful? Prior censorship? I think the world is sacrificing too much for the delusion of a few people- are they special people now that you have to walk on nails just not to offend them? What if they offend you by their mere presence?
This gay marriage issue is part of the insanity of the dying days of the WEst- it is near bankrupt, and its bankrupt values are left to pester other areas with more sensibility. In 5 years time, China will be wealthier than the US, the Asian Century will set in & inevitably Asian values will reign. Gay marriage will become a joke so what for are these noise? Lots of noise over nothing after all

Take things into its historical perspective. Then ignore or laugh at the noise. Lots of noise over nothing