... I feel like *this* needs to go viral on the Facebook ... or get retweeted ... or go up on billboards ... or be flown along the beach by those little airplanes ... or become the slogan of a twenty-four "news" channel ... or be painted on the side of barns ... or be a full page ad in the paper ... or show up on a church sign ... or be worked into a sermon ... (you know, depending on which generation you are and how susceptible you choose to be when it comes to being bombarded with marketing messages).
In other words ... welcome to marriage shaming part 2 (... but a completely different arena, as foretold during the last rant last week).
Lookit ... I am all for reasonable debate, discourse and discussion about controversial topics (for those of you who grew up on social media, you might have to ask some old folks what that means), and I understand that not everyone is happy that marriage no longer has a qualifying word before it courtesy of SCOTUS.
But here's the problem ... those who crossed the fine line into becoming sanctimonious whilst "protecting the sanctity" of marriage best not have a frequent member discount at the local bridal boutique if you want to lead the charge protesting against the civil rights changes. So a county clerk in Kentucky who has "protected the sanctity" of FOUR marriages is not the spokesperson that those with selective scripture syndrome should be presenting as a hero. (Closer to my new home ... the Florida attorney general had the same problem ... until it [and she] became irrelevant to the discussion.)
To be honest, history moved too quickly for me to ever get my post up about the issue ... but I was all prepared to suggest that the marriage equality fight was miscast from the outset ... that it should have been about DIVORCE equality ... as that was less religiously messy (since nobody seems so worried about the divorce Bible verses where the divorced woman has to wait until her former husband has to DIE before God smiles on a new union [yet again ... the beauty of selective scripture syndrome]). Admittedly, I'm a child of divorce myself (make that divorces plural ... nine of them for those who might wonder about *my* frame of reference in the ongoing debate). On the flip side, maybe we could all get behind some David style divorces ... i.e. spy the one you want bathing naked on the nearby rooftop (creepy!)) and then send her husband to the front line of battle where he's bound to be killed (clever!) so that you can get all Woody Allen on Bathsheba and have "what the heart wants". Who's with me!
One last thing ... let's not forget that Jesus was running around with his posse of 12 guys, long after the age when most frat guys finally give up that kind of lifestyle (unless you're the boys from Entourage), milling about with the riff-raff and the streetwalkers and the like ... a confirmed bachelor to the end (despite what Dan Brown says). Just enough to make a person wonder ...
Speaking of wondering ... what a different world in which we would be living if we could somehow inspire a clearcutting campaign to have individuals looking inward to deal with their own issues instead of being all up in the speck-shaming business of others. What clarity could come from such a Jesus-sanctioned initiative? Maybe *that's* what heaven is?
THOU HYPROCRITE!:
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-7-5/
OF NOTE, THEY DO NOT APPROVE GIVING THE DIVORCE STORY MORE CRED:
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/couple_denounces_attacks_on_county_clerk_married_four_times_who_denied_them_a_marriage_license
OK, OK ... IF THIS IS ALL TOO DEEP, THEN HOW'S ABOUT A LITTLE HUMOR:
http://www.rd.com/slideshows/funny-church-signs/view-all/
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