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.
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