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JamesSavik

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Last month we had a very unusual protest of the ruling that struck down the law banning gay marriage in Mississippi.

 

A black minister put a wedding dress on a horse. You don't see that everyday

 

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As you can guess, I wasn't too fond of that. It prompted a discussion on social media a little like a wild fire with brilliant social commentary like "adam and eve, not adam and steve" and "next they'll want to marry their dog".

 

This doesn't bother me. I've seen it before but then came the question- why do people compare this to allowing mixed races marry?

 

At this point, I had to jump in:

 

Let me tell you what it means. Back in the day it was illegal for blacks and whites to marry- they called it miscegenation. The preachers called it bestiality since blacks were considered sub-human. Blacks were harangued from white pulpits for generations: black skin, black heart. Slavery was condoned as biblical and that scripture was found in exactly the same place as the verses that condemn gays- Leviticus. That's where gay people are now and blacks of all people should understand.

 

This wasn't very popular. I'm still getting hate messages and threats from it. And a lot of good comments. It seems a lot of people never saw it this way before.

 

The possibility that gay marriage will eventually come to Mississippi of all places hit this state like a social earthquake.

 

Many of us never thought we would see it in our lifetime.

 

If it is coming here of all places, which is only a little less socially conservative than say Iran perhaps, should spread hope and cheer to GLBT people everywhere.

 

In the last year we have had many wins. Here in the very heart of the bible belt, this one is especially sweet and it has been a very long time coming.

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Irritable1

While I agree with you on the larger point, the biblical excuse for anti miscegenation laws, which were on the books in places like SC into the 2000s, is not from Leviticus but from Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, or at least that's what modern preachers have used as their rationale.

 

Edit: No, I'm wrong. The constitutional amendment in SC was 1998 (a friend of mine was one of the few in his precinct who voted in favor, that's why I remember the Galatians thing) and Alabama was 2000.

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Carlos Hazday

Don't feel bad about people hating on you. I would have probably asked the idiot in the picture if that was his sister in the wedding dress.

 

Just as much as it bothers me when black people think it's ok to treat me as second class citizen it bothers me just as much to find gay racists. I can't reconcile being a member of a minority and thinking I'm better than others just because of my skin color or my sexual orientation.

 

People like that ass are why abortion should be legal and easily accessible!

 

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And anyone who uses the bible to support any sort of argument is a moron! May as well use Hans Christian Anderson tales.

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Sasha Distan
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Hell, he got matching white overreach bell boots for his horse... I congratulate him on getting a horse into a dress and giving her matching shoes.

I wonder if it's a gelding?

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rustle

I love his sign -"the band on same-sex marriage" - further indication of the level of education and sophistication these "preachers" attain.

 

Why does our society glorify Old Testament bronze age thinking from one part of the world and condemn it as superstition in another?

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Timothy M.

And anyone who uses the bible to support any sort of argument is a moron! May as well use Hans Christian Anderson tales.

 

Hey as a Dane I resent that - and his name is spelt Andersen by the way.

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JamesSavik

Tim- perhaps fairy tales would have been a better choice of words

 

The guy is biblical- it seems to be coming from the jaw bone of an ass.

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Billy Martin
And anyone who uses the bible to support any sort of argument is a moron! May as well use Hans Christian Anderson tales.

 

So, I would be a moron to say, "... love thy neighbor..."?

 

As in most anything, making wide sweeping general statements can show a lack of thought.

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Carlos Hazday

So, I would be a moron to say, "... love thy neighbor..."?

 

As in most anything, making wide sweeping general statements can show a lack of thought.

 

No you would not, Billy; that is one rule I try to live by. You treat others as you expect them to treat you and you help the less fortunate. To me that's not based on religion, I do not believe in any god. It's based on my own moral compass.

 

But if we are to use allegorical tales to decide how we treat others Andersen's fairy tales are as good as those found in the bible.

 

Trust me, there was a hell of a lot of thought put into that statement before I wrote it. Years worth of thought!

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