While you and I might try to convince people on gay marriage and how gay people are indeed people who are entitled to the promises of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing equal protection under the law, there are many others whose counter arguments that we face must, by in large, be deemed laughable and sometimes totally unusable irregardless of the means by which they are communicated, even by so-called rap:
Though our arguments can be more or less centered around legal arguments and in some cases political discourse in legislative or initiative vehicles, and as the 'pro-marriage' legal defender wizard Paul Clement says: gays must use the political processes, not the courts. But this
new approach by the whack religious right is beyond farcical. As I stated earlier we cannot read this claim to be at all genuine or believable. If you actually sit down with these muppets you will find something in common in their stance on gay marriage: marriage is defined by GOD. Yes the almighty, and NOT the so-called "political process" nonsense.
There is nothing wrong with believing in a higher power that may have created this universe upon which we exist. But claiming that such supernatural force has communicated to us humans through a book is a very wild and delusional claim. The creator of the universe cannot at will write a book, it doesn't happen today nor did it happen in the past. People wrote the bible, plain and simple.
I'm not discounting the Bible as a good source for philosophical pondering or to use it as a guide to form your own chosen lifestyle much like how Star Wars fans use a movie to form their own world view, philosophy, and even lifestyle. But it would be totally strange if any of these fans started declaring that George Lucas is God. Such people would, rightfully, be laughed off the stage.
Similarly we must view the claim that the people who wrote the Bible are in fact "god" themselves with the same skepticism, because the claim by the anti-gays that "god" wrote the manuscript and in such manuscript the author reveals himself to be "god" and his word in said writing to be his authority is also an outlandish claim. And with that people have deemed themselves fully capable of handling a much complicated issue as homosexual psychology simply by quoting (or misquoting to be exact) passages from the Bible because it was written by "god." Therefore "god" is against homosexuality and gay marriage and so is the gullible dupe who still has to prove that just because this self appointed "god" figure "claims" he is opposed to "sodomy-based marriage" that it automatically means the reader of the Bible, and all of us well, must be opposed as well.
I simply cannot take this stupid illogical argument seriously. It simply must be rejected because, quite simply, it is not based on reality, science, or logic.
If the Bible is
in fact the word of god its got to be his most laziest, futile attempt to impress his human creation. First off, we are talking about "god," the creator and all knowing of the entire universe even that of which is not part of the universe (our universe must have come from somewhere.) If the Bible was truly written by this all knowing creator of everything and nothingness why doesn't the Bible reveal the secrets of the atom, quantum theory, the exact number of elements he created, the nature of spirit, multilevel dimensions, DNA structure and sequence space time and time travel, black holes, the secrets of the pyramids, free sustainable energy, human brain structure, human cell creation, psychological theories, advanced geometry and math; and why doesn't it also answer the big questions: are there any more planets in the solar system, are there other civilizations like ours in other solar systems and galaxies, how many galaxies exist, why create the universe at all, why create humans, how long would the sun last, the universe as well; and why not reveal at that time it was written the actual number of planets, how to build machines we use today, cure illnesses and understanding viruses etc; in fact, why didn't the Bible also predict the coming of the United States and Barack Obama, 9/11, the internet, the landing on the moon, the creation of the Catholic Church and pedophilia; and lastly, why not write the Bible in English, French, and Spanish so that every single human being can clearly understand what the rules are and not left with vague analogies and trying to second guess what certain Bible verses are trying to say. But as we've seen the important task of actually translating the Bible to other world languages (other than the not-so-much used languages of Hebrew and Greek) was hastily done with the now detectable consequences, it seems like "god" was not that eager to share with all humans his so-called "word."
Instead of revealing the secrets of the universe, the Bible focuses on slavery, polygamy, war, subservience, treachery, violence, famine, human sacrifice, rape, destruction, satanism, demons, apple trees, burning bushes, walking dead, mysterious arks and boxes, jealous fathers, disobedient sons, walls crumbling, desert wondering, diseases, murder, rape, loot and plunder, egotistical kings, tribal wars, nudity, mysterious births, earthquakes, executions, treason, cheating spouses, familial feuds, feet washing, wine drinking, prostitution, powerful clergy, fortune tellers, dream readers, mysterious graffiti, ufos, pesky housewives, nosy servants, cooking edicts, foreskins, wasting semen, masturbating in front of idols, incest, rich people going broke, gambling and making bets, priests getting whipped, seduction, child stoning, whales swallowing humans, talking serpents, floating zoos, gay sex, straight sex, adultery, stone tablets being broken, war mongering... and many other titillating things that properly belong in a novel, not the supposed book that was written by the all knowing creator of the universe. We can go even further: if this is such an important book why did "god," or his imperfect human assistants, waste their time writing this important information on parchment paper that can be easily destroyed through time. If this was truly the hand of "god" at work, he would have been smart enough to leave such important information on CD-ROM, a floppy disk, a hard drive, a DVD, or some other more sophisticated device or vehicle that would be easy to access and be protected almost forever so that future generations of humans can really understand what this supposed "god" is all about and what we need to know and learn (i.e no homo sex, marriage, etc). Such oversight should leave any rational person wondering: is the Bible really the word of "god" and if not who wrote it? Well we know who the real authors are because if you look at the original manuscripts you will see the evidence of a "person" writing this book with his hand. Therefore it cannot be the word of "god" because in of itself its a pretty revealing and honest book about the views and attitudes of the early centuries of this common era.
Biblical marriage is based on views of radical authors of around 300 - 500 AD, and hadn't this book been officiated as "the Bible" and were just to magically show up today, the objective reader would have thought that he/she is actually reading a screenplay for a creepy horror, science fiction, martian snuff film written by Quentin Tarantino.
