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Lately, my friends have been encouraging me to join groups preserving the sanctity of marriage, which as a part of my LDS religion, is something that I should automatically be willing to do. I don't join them, though. That's not to say that I believe that there is something wrong with marriage or that marriage should not be something sacred.
I believe in equality for everyone. If that means that two men should be getting married, then let them get married. I don't see why people have to say that marriage will be forever harmed if two people of the same gender choose to pledge their lives to each other for eternity. It seems like a good thing that people are actually still willing to get married.
According to the groups that my friends want me to join, children will be forever harmed if men are allowed to marry other men or women to other women. This isn't true. Children are not irreparably damaged by gay marriage. They're damaged by things like divorce and abuse, which happen in marriages between straight people. Though these things will possibly happen with the gay couples, I doubt that it will be any more damaging because the child has two parents of the same gender doing these things.
Also, these groups believe that tolerance of the lifestyles are enough. Tolerance is never enough. Acceptance is enough. To tolerate still allows for hatred. To accept, and fully accept at that, is to allow yourself the freedom of spirit to be willing to see people as people and not as despisable creatures that need to be killed like venomous insects.
People need to do their research before they choose to jump on a bandwagon. If they want to tell people that a certain lifestyle is harmful, then looking into unbiased reports might be a good start. Sure, churches and "family organizations" are going to say that unorthodox ways of living are bad, but that doesn't mean that they actually are.
Until people actually take the time to do the research, my friends will just have to keep sending me invites to these groups that I ignore, and I will just have to keep joining Causes and Groups for these things that they abhor.
