Archive Home Page Well, perhaps the reluctance to talk about child abuse in a folder on marriage (this one just happens to be about gay marriage) is a reflection of the reluctance of parents and family members to talk about abuse occuring right in their own families.
The main point I am making regarding the biblical roots of this issue is that there is somehow a misconception that in supporting the Bible "as a whole", folks can reserve for themselves the best of that "reflection of the mind of God" (one of many) and project out on to others the worst. As if somehow the maintenance of the negative aspects of Biblical beliefs didn't have consequences. As if somehow our individual and collective human destinies were not intertwined.
You can't keep pouring energy into all this negative stuff and not expect it to have consequences.
How can anyone pretend that the rejection of their gay sons and daughters (or attempting to mark them as flawed or mentally ill) has anything to do with the love of Christ? We know better. It is Abrahams knife that is wielded above your sons and daughters as they are indoctrinated with self hatred and despair. And it is fear that commands the perpetuation of this wretched story. No child, gay or straight, of any family, emerges unscathed from this... this absolute abomination.
The family is not merely an icon that was placed out before us so that we could be measured against it. The family is a living entity with each of it's members possessing unique gifts. The health of a family can be directly measured, not only in terms of how it treats it's members, but how it treats others. And by that standard it's not doing very well today.
"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
- Martin Luther King
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
You may not like this, but it may be that the decision is already taken. The future vitality and continuation of the traditional family may be directly related to the strengths that it's gay sons and daughters bring to it. When you reject us, you reject a part of yourself, and though you may not yet realize it, it may be one of the best parts. A house divided cannot stand.