An Epistemology for the Soul
It goes like this:
1. For those who are telling you that sexual orientation is a choice, one can say, "I don't know, I'm not a scientist (and neither are you)."
2. The issue then is not one about definition exclusively, it's about humanity, about doing what is decent, about treating people without discrimination, in the face of heartfelt companionship and caring (even Christlike caring)?
3. Therefore, because we don't know, we love each other and enact laws that show caring, even if that means that, sometimes, 'the law' doesn't look like gazing at perfection.
Now that the Richardson thing is over, we can file this one as a way to talk to those who are so intransigent within their own faith communities.
The best thing that could happen to that intra-faith dialogue, still, in my estimation, is for the discussion to at least tip for a time from "No!", to "IF we were to move toward blessing SSM, what about ...", which is at least the path in which collective talents would prove greater than individual ones, forming perhaps both a better understanding and a better propagation.
/f Gay Marriage: Theology
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Gay Marriage: Faith, Hope, Charity .. But the Greatest of These
