Glenn Beck Says Gay Marriage 'No Threat' To America

GAY MARRIAGE: "A marriage, by any other name..."

I'm attending my first gay wedding today. I'm attending my first same-sex wedding today. I'm attending my first homosexual wedding today. What is the politically correct term for such a wedding? Who cares? Frankly, I don't understand the furor and uproar over same-sex marriages. I'm at the wedding of two women who have been together for thirty-three years.

As our breathtakingly beautiful daughter hands out programs in the rear of the church and our twenty-year-old son sits alone in a front pew waiting to sing for these two women in his rich bass voice, I sit on the truly uncomfortable pew in the austere little Congregational church, next to Jim, my one-and-only husband of twenty-eight years, and think about our marriage and this man.

He hates celery and he calls me "Wifely." He made me whole again after our first baby miscarried. He usually gets in bed first and every night when I go in the bathroom to wash my face, my toothbrush sits next to the sink, topped with a minty white line of toothpaste - waiting for me. It's there every morning, too.

As we prepared for the impending birth of our son, who is now, incredibly, six feet five inches tall, our midwife gave Jim two jobs to fulfill during our forty-five minute drive to the hospital: Keep the car warm, for it was bitterly cold that January, and get to the hospital quickly. I had read somewhere that drinking a quart of whole milk at the onset of contractions lessened labor pain. So, I dutifully guzzled the milk as my body went into automatic pilot with a course set for childbirth, and just seemed to go along for the ride. Jim took the midwife's directions to heart. He cranked up the heat and zipped down pot-holey Connecticut back roads I never knew existed. All the while, the quart of milk sloshed and bubbled until finally, like a human Mount Vesuvius, I erupted and threw up cottage cheese consistency clumps of milk all over myself and the floor of the car. Jim drove along in the eighty-five degree car while I was astonished and kept repeating the obvious question, "Isn't that the smelliest barf you've ever smelled?" I told him to pull over while I chucked the pukey floor mat out the car door. He never complained and he insisted he couldn't smell a thing, which I knew was a big fat lie.

My attention returns to the front of the church as our son begins to sing. The mood changes as he smiles at the women and the spotlight moves briefly from them to him. The women, one a social worker and the other a successful businesswoman, prepare to exchange their vows. They have been together for thirty-three years. They have crow's feet, graying hair, anxious smiles and they appear nervous. They face each other, holding hands and say "You have been the steadiness that has kept me on an even keel over the years, and for this I love you dearly" and "I am a far better person because of you and love you more than ever."


Wedding rings, the same rings they've worn for years are "re-exchanged." The Congregational minister offers the following blessing: "May your lives together be joyful and content, and may your love be as bright as the stars, as warm as the sun, vast as the ocean and as enduring as the mountains."

How is this wedding different from any other? To me, marriage has nothing to do with religion or God; it's about stuff like the waiting toothbrush and the clumpy throw-up. Why should anyone be denied such love because of gender?

Same-sex marriages might make some people uncomfortable, but they can't hurt anyone. Are people afraid that gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall?

Guests are teary, rice is thrown and we all walk down the country road to an evening reception at the home of the women.

I attended a wedding today.

Velya Jancz-Urban
www.chicapeeps.com

For once, I agree with Glenn Beck. And so should anyone with an actual sense of propriety and knowledge of the principles this nation was founded upon. The USA was NOT founded as a Christian nation. The purpose of this country from the very beginning has been tolerance, religious freedom, and refuge. This does not extend only to Christians. Therefore, justification by a particular brand of Christianity should NOT be a hurdle any legislation must pass. Gay marriage neither breaks legs nor picks pockets. That truth cannot be denied by any reasonable person looking at the facts. And if one's personal dogma forbids homosexuality, that is still no justification for banning gay marriage, because in this nation, no one religion supercedes another! P.S. This new comment moderating process, judging by some less than coherent comments already posted, still has some issues to be worked out.

The Constitution is the law of the land. Plus, please note there is millions of CITIZENS who have their own faith, beliefs, and religion who do not believe in the Bible. There right to believe is equal to yours, they have freedom of religion to believe as they see fit as do you. For one to say their beliefs are right and others are wrong is an attack against ones freedoms and rights. Do not tell me what to believe nor how for I do not do so to you or any one else's. I CELEBRATE and SUPPORT OTHERS RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, CHOICE, RELIGION AND BELIEF. There is no one right way to believe, nor to worship, nor to believe, nor to practice. Intolerance and the forcing of ones religion on another is WRONG. There does not exist any proof one belief or religion is the right one or the only true one etc. THAT is why religion and worship is a matter of FAITH and BELIEF !!

There is frustrating thing about gay bigotry that, I suspect, gets under just about all the right-wingers' and homophobes' skin. Yes, you can hate and fear someone based upon Biblical quotes, childhood misconceptions, ignorance, on and on. But, in truth, being basically fairly decent people in other respects, even the haters do their hating mostly in the abstract. Almost to a person, they have someone in their own family, their own neighborhood, their own church or synagogue, their own office or whatever, who is gay---and they like that person just fine. So, in sum, it's a "they" thing---they out there somewhere who are the demons bent on destroying marriage, the country, the world. Hey, come on now; how long can you carry on with this gay bashing stuff? It's old hat, worn out, and you're looking sillier every day. Find a new cause.

The semantics of using "marriage" to describe the union of two gays is what makes this such a hot button issue. Support for civil unions -- which should have EVERY legal advantage afforded the marriage between a man and a woman -- is a huge majority in this country. It's only when it's called marriage that support plummets. I personally favor civil unions and not gay marriage, precisely for that semantic reason and what the word marriage means to me.

You come out and say you are gay
You say God made you this way.
Except it, this is the USA.
You want equal rights
without any fights.
You want all things
which marriage brings.
Husband and Husband, Wife and Wife
this is the American life.
But if God had made Adam and Steve
instead of making Adam and Eve.
Just where would you be
this question I ask of thee?

this is the first time in my life i have ever agreed with GB. gay marrage is not a big deal, although I am adamately against it. you can have sex with whoever you want, we need to focus on soldiers who are maimed, wars, hunger, feeding the hungry, not the ego of a gay person, geesh! its not a threat at all, its just wrong, why should the rest of the country expend time, energy, taxes on this issue now. its totaly out of whack, but then so is the issue so there.

One problem I can see is that some pastors and priests and rabbis feel that this is against the law of God and I don't think they should be forced to perform these marriages. There are probably a lot that will, but those who are adamant about their beliefs should not be LEGALLY forced to perform these ceremonies.

I have never understood how 2 guys living together for the past 15 yrs, right down the street, can in any way affect my life by getting married. Nor do I understand why it all has to go through legal channels. As long as we're talking about consenting adults, it's truly none of my business who marries whom. There are so many really important problems to focus on and attempt to solve, yet every other headline and article seems to focus on same-sex marriage. I find this rather childish. It all reminds me of a dog with a bone he just won't let go of.

How can gays drag us down any further than we are now,America is a cess pool we all helped make that way,no more good or evil,just gray ..we have become a country of cowards,,