I just want to drop this here:
I posted this as my status earlier today. I wanted to share it with you. You are an inspiration to me and are one of the reasons I was brave enough to finally take a stand.
“I am so very tired. I don’t understand why I have to argue about “gay marriage”. I don’t understand why “THE BIBLE” controls my legal rights. If “THE BIBLE” is the sole source of your argument as to why I can’t get married, then “marriage” is a religious event and has NO LEGAL BEARING.
I want to marry the love of my life. I am in a committed relationship that has lasted for over 13 years now. We would be “married” already if it wasn’t for my contempt of how I’m treated by the world. I am not asking any church, any religion or any person to tell THEIR God that I am married. I am asking for a recognition by my friends, my lover, my self and my God of our union.
I also want the LEGAL RIGHT that “marriage” is giving you.
I want our credit score to be OUR credit score.
I want my taxes to have the same deduction you get for your RELIGIOUS ceremony.
I want my protection of estate to be the same for my lover as you get for your RELIGIOUS ceremony.
I want to be able to raise children in a loving home.
I want my lover to be able to visit my deathbed.
I want my lover to be able to pull the plug.
I want my lover to be able to have me cremated, as those are my wishs.
I want to be able to call “my lover” my husband.
God doesn’t give you these rights. The law does.
I don’t want YOUR God to marry us. I want the God that I love, the God that loves me, to marry us. We will have our own religious ceremony to celebrate our marriage. If you are offended or think it is “wrong”, stay out of my church! I’ll gladly stay out of yours. I’ve had enough hate from humans. I don’t need it from YOUR God.
Geoffrey Todd Walker – Human Being”