Belief Equality..........

This one is a tough one to try and write out and even reason with people.  Especially when these people fight for equal rights, yet reject other people’s rights at the same time.  These people who I’ve come to call liberals.  Yes a liberal will fight for rights of others and rights for themselves even if it limits rights of a select few.  So when I use the term liberals throughout the rest of this blog – I’m referring to this definition of a liberal and not what most people use it as.

You see – liberals are so very easy to call people who disagree with their beliefs “bigots” – yet they do not try and understand why a person has such a belief, nor asks what they believe.  Simply because they disagree with them – they’re clearly deemed a “bigot”.  Isn’t there a saying that goes it takes one to know one?  Simply because one disagrees with your belief, and you’re not willing to hear them – does it not make you a “bigot” as well?

Or how about – you pointing the finger, yet three fingers are pointing right back at you.

Let’s talk about marriage equality for a moment.  Or for that matter, let’s talk about marriage period.  I’ve talked to some people I’d consider good friends over the years.  Some of them gay/homosexual, some of them atheist, and some of them a mix of the two(gay/homosexual and atheist).  What’s interesting about this – is the one thing I generally hear from them is “why would anyone want to get married?  It’s a religious thing.”

Ok – so marriage is a religious thing they say.  So – why are politics getting involved in a religious matter?

I’m a huge fan of separation of Church and State.  So – yes, I’m a Christian.  Why does one need to go to the state to get a license to get married?  Well everyone – it’s pretty clear.  It’s all about money.  You have to pay to go get the license.

So the bigger question is this:  If there was no recognition from the State that you are actually married, would you still want to go and get married?  What benefit would it have?

You see, I don’t want to go to the State and ask for a marriage license.  I simply want to go to a minister/pastor and ask him to simply marry me in an open area.  I want this marriage to be accepted in the eyes of God.  I could care less about whether the State approves or accepts this marriage.

So you see – if you eliminate the State from the subject of marriage, it solves a lot of problems that people always bring up.

People always point the finger at Christianity about marriage, saying they’re against same-sex marriage.  The issue is, for a millennia and even longer – marriage has been defined as a union between a man and a woman.  This isn’t only with Christianity, in fact Christianity is founded on Judaism, and this was a Jewish thing.  Now Jews and Christians aren’t the only ones with this meaning – but even Muslims have this same belief.

See how it was worded – marriage has been defined as a UNION between a man and a woman.

If the separation of Church and State were to become 100% real – maybe the State could offer ceremonies called “Unions” – while the religious establishments can continue to do what they’ve always done and continue to marry people without the need to seek approval from the state.

This IMO(in my opinion) would provide everything everyone is looking to do.  It would respect the religious establishments.  Let’s keep in mind I never mentioned religions like Mormons or others where they accept polygamy. 

Everyone is rooting and happy that the marriage equality thing has happened – but it still doesn’t accept polygamy.  While many people may feel polygamy is a whole other situation – people have those beliefs.  So, if a religious person is supposed to accept another one’s belief that it is acceptable to have same-sex marriages.  Should the person who accepts same-sex marriages not accept that others have a belief that polygamy is accepted within marriages?

May sound like 2 very different things – but in the end it’s simply accepting one’s beliefs.  So if we’re going to start accepting one’s beliefs – then we should be accepting everyone’s beliefs and not just one group of people’s beliefs – but all groups of people’s beliefs. 

You see – I accept that everyone has different beliefs.  I accept the fact that we do, while I may disagree with certain beliefs – I do my best that it doesn’t change how I act towards the person nor how I feel about them.  I do my best to treat everyone with the same amount of respect as the next person.  Love your neighbour as yourself, right?

If I have the right to believe something, another person has the right to believe something else.  Now it’s great to debate this in a healthy discussion, but it should be done in a way to better understand the other person, rather than calling them a “bigot” – because little do you know how complex the reason or reasons are for why a person believes what they do.

This blog, is only beginning to scratch at the surface as for how I believe about marriage-equality, which we can then start to call belief-equality.