by Leslie » June 7th, 2007, 5:33 pm
I was hoping there would be an option for "I'm a Christian and I don't exactly know." Although the issue may tear apart my church (the Anglican Church of Canada), I'm sitting firmly (for now, anyway) on the fence. I lean toward tolerance, though. I know a few men who are legally married to other men (one I know from church), and honestly, it doesn't make a difference to me if they are married or living together or whatever. God loves them all. I respect their desire to be together, and if the state wants to extend to them the privileges that go along with marriage, I won't argue. There are so many things that are more important than this.
But I'm not sure that "marriage" is what I would call it, since I think that there is a basic reproductive element to marriage. Even if a particular male-female couple are physically unable to have children, the normal state is that male-female relationships naturally produce children.
So I guess I would have liked a "yes to civil unions, no to marriage" option.
"What are you laughing at?"
"At myself. My little puny self," said Phillipa.
--Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede