--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I just got back from Ocean Grove, where I attended their annual
meeting, which was
> dominated by protest and comments about the issue of same sex
marriage in the
> boardwalk pavilion.
> Frank Pallone Jr. was there "arguing that the
> association has received federal and state money for the boardwalk
and other
> maintenance, and thus should follow the rules pertaining to other
public places."
> What I hear is prejudice hiding behind bureacracy.
> Here's what kills me;
> The Came Meeting Association will allow any straight couple to be
married there. So, if you
> are straight, and lets say you've done things like rape, murder,
molest children, be
> dishonest...any of the things that we all find reprehensible, and
you find Jesus, and
> apologize...because you are straight, you are fine. Now, I'm not
saying that the straight
> community is filled with horrible people. It isn't.
> But.
> If you are gay, and you love the same God as the straight people,
and found the same
> Jesus, no matter how else you've lived your life...you can't get
married there.
> Because you are gay.
> That's prejudice.
> So, the most horrible staight person could get married there, but a
person who's only
> crime in the eyes of the church is being gay will be rejected.
> Prejudice, plain and simple.
> Not only that, but if you reduce this to the basic argument that
one kind of sex is fine, but
> the other is a sin...then that is ridiculous. There is plenty of
crazy sex going on in the
> straight world. But no, that's ok. I won't even go into the details
of this thought. Use you
> imagination.
> The overwhelming feeling at the meeting was that very many people
feel like this fight has
> caused Ocean Grove a great amount of damage.
>
Civil Union is not Marriage, the legislatures stopped short of
granting the right to marry.
I want to know if a man and a woman can enter into a civil union?
who knows?
Please tell me!
Thanks
KB
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