#pro-marriage

[emmagottlieb52]

I want to have a life full of saccharinity,intellect,and tradition restoration.

[alittlefallofrumbelle]

I'm gonna be honest

All the anti-marriage discourse on this website kinda brings me down. We fight for the right for LGBTI+ couples to marry whoever they want, then simultaneously discredit the entire institution. I dunno, I guess I've always wanted to get married since I was small and now that I'm planning a wedding with the person I love, I just keep seeing people being like, "Lol, why?"

[candidatespaulding-blog]

Why Roy Cooper should follow his conscience and the law

Pro-marriage equality activists are looking to Attorney General Roy Cooper to join their side. At right is the Rev. Nathan Fair of Trinity United Church of Christ, Concord.

Roy Cooper is in a fix. He's the state attorney general, so he represents the General Assembly and the McCrory Administration—come hell or coal ash in the water. In other words, he's a Democrat defending the horrid Republican record. Worse, he's an all-but-official candidate for governor, meaning he's running against the very record he's upholding.

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[gayforlgbt]

Make no mistake -- I am a Christian and I believe in God and I don’t believe he makes mistakes, so I believe that being gay is not a sin and in fact it’s how you’re made.

Kristin Chenoweth

[craftpvnk]

Oh I love the smell of pissed off conservative in the morning (◡‿◡✿)

[windowinthesky88]

via @NCRegister

[thestuntbum]

The Semantic Lie of Pro Marriage

I see a lot of people talking about being pro marriage but not anti gay.  I just read a post where someone posted a question about the "sacred institution of marriage" and then claim to be no gay.  Of course, once you refer to it as sacred you are invoking the name of God without mentioning God.  Things that are mundane are not sacred, things that are holy are sacred.  So the question becomes where are you getting the idea that it's sacred?  Well, likely you are getting said idea from talking heads but the true basis, the root, is that you are getting it from the bible.  Of course, the bible does happen to like marriage.  A lot actually.  So much so that it orders the killing of anyone who has sex outside of wedlock.  Not scorned.  Not disliked.  They should be killed.  That's pretty damn pro marriage.  But this means that if you believe in the sacred institute of marriage you should really be pushing for the forced marriage of gay men and women everywhere.  Because all that sex they're having?  That is wrong, you need them to get married.

But then you run into an issue.  The bible isn't so keen on the whole gay sex thing.  See, it thinks gay people should be killed, too.  Well, that's an issue and that's why you oppose gay marriage.  Because the bible says homosexuality is wrong and homosexuals should be killed.  The bible is decidedly anti-gay and that is your motivation for opposing gay marriage.  It is not because you are pro-marriage, it is because you are anti-gay.  Well, in fairness you are both.  But you are decidedly anti-gay, it's just you can no longer say that and not look like a bigot.  So you take a cowards way out and twist your words, which is a lie.  The bible doesn't like liars either...

So all I ask at this point is for you to come clean and announce that you are anti-gay.  You are against homosexuality and gay people.  I realize it will debase a lot of your argument because to many people it will make you look like an asshole but at least you won't be sinning.

[elesined-blog-blog]

Consistency

I love when I read an article that so easily and eloquently affirms the consistency of the Catholic faith. Not only consistent from century to century, but even within itself from doctrine to doctrine (or idea or teaching or whatever the proper term is). Here's the article this time:

http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=10904

I feel like I have had more exposure to pro-life/pro-choice debates and thought patterns in the last two weeks than I ever had before. I think the Komen decision and un-decision begin the explosion of discussion on my Facebook news feed, but I also think I have just never really paid attention. I didn't realize how many of my friends are incredibly pro-choice and how many more take pro-life issues incredibly seriously. Recently, I've found myself getting really defensive about pro-church, pro-life, and pro-marriage topics, some things I had previously accepted without much question. Just some of the extreme emotion and disgust I have seen posted by friends on both sides of the debates recently, have just really been weighing on me. I've also been reading Unplanned, by Abby Johnson, who I think so far has done a nice job of relaying common and quick responses to both sides, including the middle-of-the-road side.

As far as the consistencies that I think are so beautiful, they really go together. You just can't truly and fully hold one of these ideals without the other - and as I look in to Catholic teaching, this is the pattern I see. I only hope that if and when I am ever in a conversation or debate about one of these topics with someone else, especially of a different opinion, that I'd be granted the grace to approach it wisely, patiently, and kindly.

Pro-people. Pro-life. Pro-sex. Pro-marriage.

Pro-church.

Pro-God.