[Durham INC] Support the marriage amendment

[Reyn Bowman]

I know you probably didn't intend it that way but the words you chose use
happen to be very similar to what many of us heard when we stood shoulder to
shoulder for civil rights.  This is a secular issue, not a religious issue.
 I see no reason why Gays and Lesbians should be denied a civil right to
marry under state law.  If religions want to excluded Gays and Lesbians from
marriage within their faith, then that's their right and that's just one of
many reasons we should continue to keep the state and religions separate.

I agree that an agenda is involved.  It is the same agenda of exclusion that
has been used repeatedly in this country over the years to exclude not only
Blacks but Jews, Catholics, Immigrants, Unions and Women among others and
now it is being used s an argument to exclude Gays and Lesbians.

Each of these efforts over time to exclude have rested on the insinuation of
 "they have a choice" usually wrapped around a doctrine or to signal Social
Darwinism and/or as though a judgmental God had created people a certain way
so they should be excluded.

I hope we can keep government and religion separate as this is debated but I
doubt it.  It's the agenda of many of those driving it to create a false
choice.


On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Christine Chamberlain <
christinebbd at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm new to this list serve, and from what I've seen so far this group has a
> wide and diverse group of people.
>
> I love my friends who are homosexual, and I will always be there to support
> them through thick and thin.  It is not my business to judge their choices
> in partners whether they be homo or hetero.  I have 3 friends from college,
> who were homosexual while in college, and all 3 chose to revert back to
> heterosexual after receiving counseling for alcoholism.  2 are married with
> children, the 3rd is engaged.
>
> I've lived in NC since 1994 and I'm the founder of the first charter school
> in NC, Healthy Start Academy.  My school is 99% black, always has been,
> although I'm white and my white daughter attended the school.  The state
> tried to shut my school down because it was mostly black (and failed after
> the national news media spread the news from coast to coast).
>
> Having said this, I must say I support the constitutional amendment banning
> same sex marriage.  The gay/lesbian agenda is to piggy-back racial issues,
> and this doesn't gain them much sympathy from black families.  You can't
> choose to be black.  You can't choose to be white.  You CAN choose to be gay
> or lesbian.
>
> I'm sure my opinion won't be popular among some of you, please send all
> hate mail  privately rather than to the list
>
> Christine Chamberlain
>
>
>
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Reyn Bowman
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