All to often, the gay marriage debate is oversimplified and both pro- and contra- positions are misrepresented. So, I was very happy to see this article by Marc Barnes:
4 Ways the Gay Marriage Debate Has Been Rigged
The article isn’t perfect, nor totally comprehensive in its presentation of the pro’s and con’s, but in a lot of ways Marc seems to get the basic problem right.
Part of the problem, as he points out, is the reduction of people to abstractions, by using labels and stereotypes. He has another article specifically on the stereotyping of men who have same-sex attractions. It is worth reading too!
Our Godawful Objectification of Men with Same-Sex Attraction
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About Fr Matthew Green
Currently parochial vicar at Holy Family Parish, on Cape Ann (serving the churches of St. Ann, St. Joachim, and St. Anthony). I moved to the area in early August '11, and am very happy to be in such a welcoming community and beautiful location!
One of my hobbies is photography. You can see my photos
on Flickr and buy prints of some of them
on Fine Art America.
I am a daily contributor to
GoodMorningGloucester (GMG for short), a blog by and about the community of Gloucester specifically and Cape Ann in general. The content is diverse, ranging from the beautiful and sublime to the earthy and occasionally offensive. I hope my contributions are of the former kind, not the latter. So, while I cannot endorse all the content that is posted there, I am grateful to Joey (the founder and admin of the blog) for giving me space to make my contribution.
I also have my own blog,
Perpetual Learner, which mostly includes my homilies and some re-posts from GMG, but also sometimes has other content, such as my personal reflections, videos I like, etc.
Fr. Matthew, thank for posting this. Two of my brothers are in same-sex marriages which have been legal here in Canada for many years. Since I don’t agree with their lifestyle, I am accused of hating them. The accusation is not just from my brothers, but from my other siblings as well. As a result, none of them talk to me. I get so tired of the “hate” label. All I can do at this point is keep praying and offering up for them all.