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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Marriage Equality Around the World
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A week ago on April 10, Uruguay's General Assembly approved a same-sex marriage bill, which is awaiting the signature of the country's president. Jubilation erupted in the Chamber of Deputies upon the bill's passage by a vote of 71-21:
Also in the Southern Hemisphere, New Zealand's Parliament today approved same-sex marriage by a vote of 77 to 44, which was followed by a waiata from spectators in the galleries:
National Party MP Maurice Williamson made a humorous, kick-ass speech in favor of the bill:
The bill now awaits Royal Assent by the Governor-General, and is expected to become effective in August.
Uruguay and New Zealand are the second and third countries in the Southern Hemisphere to enact marriage equality nationwide, following South Africa, which legalized it in 2005. The total now stands at 13 countries with nationwide marriage equality, with France expected to join their ranks in the near future, and the United Kingdom as well. Over the weekend, a constitutional convention in the Republic of Ireland recommended that same-sex marriage be submitted to a public referendum there. Same-sex marriage is also legal in some parts of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
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Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?
It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.
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