The article on Monday’s front page, “Wedlock battle cry,” creates the impression that opposition to extending the blessings of marriage to God’s gay and lesbian children is the only Christian position on the issue. This simply is not the case.
Many of us Christians support the right of gay and lesbian people to marry. On Valentine’s Day a large group of religious people attended a rally in Olympia in support of same gender marriage.
Your article quotes one churchgoer as saying that her position is not about hating any group of people. I cannot accept this statement as true. The opponents of same gender marriage talk as if someone were trying to take marriage away from heterosexual couples and give it only to same gender couples. The statement you quote from one member of Cedar Park Assembly of God that “there’s no other option for procreation, for a stable family, for stability and the future of our society and mankind” makes sense only if the speaker believes that marriage between a man and a woman is somehow threatened by the marriage equality movement. This simply is not true. No one is trying to take marriage away from straight couples.
The passion the people in your story apparently feel about denying marriage to same gender couples can only be the result of prejudice. I pray that God will open the hearts of those who deny the full humanity of gay and lesbian people so that hatred and prejudice may cease and all Christians may at last recognize God’s love for all people.
Rev. Dr. Tom Sorenson
Monroe
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