On The Supreme Court and Same-sex Marriage

 

"Supreme Court rejects challenge to legalisation of same-sex marriage"

That was the headline on the BBC website this morning. I goes on to cover how this non-hearing came about with a woman named Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky, refused to issue a wedding license to a same-sex couple based on her religious beliefs. She got sued and lost. The judge in the case found that she cannot use her constitutional rights to violate someone else's. Evidently, the Supreme Court agrees. I think it goes deeper than that.

I support Ms. Davis' right to her religious beliefs. She is free to believe her Apostolic Christian beliefs freely. Her mistake is believing that she had the right to impose those beliefs on anyone -anybody- else. If she truly believes that homosexuality is against her beliefs, then she's in the wrong job. Instead of refusing to do her job, she should have resigned. "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's". She was a public authority. Her job was to issue legal licensing to the public for the purposes (pretty much) of state record keeping. If she had religiously-based issues with that function, get another function. 

Your religious beliefs have absolutely nothing to do with another's beliefs or political rights. And you damn sure cannot enforce your beliefs on anybody else. It is anti-Christian to do so. You want people to share your beliefs? Show them how your beliefs make your life better, improve the society we live in, and make people happy while they maintain their right to choose. God gave mankind choice. Who are we to take it away?

Christ turned no one away. No one. The only entity he rejected was Satan and even then, he simply refused to take up what he was offering. You have an absolute right to your beliefs. So does everybody else. You want to convert someone? Love them. Don't deny them.