And that's the Gospel Truth!

So lately the entire country has been bombarded by the issue of gay marriage and equal rights for gay couples. I totally understand the importance of it to most sides involved, but I have to say this somewhere--

The Bible is definately a key factor in historians' assessments of the world and majorly important in determining what sin is and is also a perfectly good way to figure out basic guidelines for life. But when it comes to something as hardhitting and immense as gay marriage, I honestly do not think it should be trusted.

The books in the Bible are always opened with a phrase like, "From a Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians." For one thing, this is not necessarily scholarly work. As stated, it is a letter to a community about something that Paul thought was really important. I don't doubt that it was true and I don't think that Paul had any reason to lie or write stories about Jesus or prophets. I just think that, being a letter, it will almost inevitably be a letter of persuasion or a call to action. I also happen to know that Nero ( I think it was Nero) made a major difference when it came to religion. I haven't read my book on Christianity recently (yes I own one), but I am entirely certain that a Roman emperor took the Bible apart and chose what should be included. This was done to benefit the emperor himself or to benefit his empire. This is one major reason I don't think the Bible should be an authority on something as major as gay marriage.

Another idea-
When Scary Palin lady was in the vice presidential debate, she basically said, 'Yes we will make sure legal rights are given, but we don't want to challenge the traditional definition of marriage.'

While this is not a direct quote, I assure you, it is very close. What's unfortunate is that Biden said the same thing.

What gets me here is that they don't want to challenge what they say is 'the traditional definition of marriage.' This bugs me a whole lot because marriage happens to be one of those things that changes from culture to culture and time period to another, and even between present day countries. There has been polygamy, there has been the 2 person couple, there has been the English way of and older gent marrying a preteen. In less advanced times, the point of these marriages was to result in a high number of children, because children died at a very high rate at childbirth, as did women. But to say that they do not desire to challenge a definition is laughable considering the fact that marriages that consist of a man and a woman already tear apart this definition just fine as heterosexuals. They have had affairs, and they have had divorces. There are estrangements, and there is a reversal of roles in the home, such as men playing housekeeper and women playing breadwinner.

I wrote an article about this topic (on the veep debate) for my school paper. It wasn't published, but I will not say that it wasn't published because of my views. I know that other people are taking a class that publishes the paper, and those have to be printed. I am also aware that I am not as experienced a writer as others are. And there is always one or two election pieces that are picked up from other universities, and they might not have wanted a third. Either way, I was upset that it wasn't published because it is an important topic to me. Important in the sense that while I am Catholic and do believe in many things that this religion proclaims, I also try to keep my head and remember that almost everything in my religion was thought up by a man. Jesus happened to break bread and drink wine at his last supper, but he didn't tell us to do the same. He didn't tell us to take the tree idea from the pagans and give gifts on Christmas day. All we do is follow the example of those in the Bible, which I have already stated as being less then the bottom line. I believe what was said to have taken place, such as the Crucifixion and even His rise from the dead, but as I believe, I remember that it was really just Paul, or Mark, or Ruth, or Job, or John, or Luke who was telling someone else what happened. These people never meant for their words to become law.

Except maybe Paul, who became the first Pope.

Hope you found this interesting and enlightening.