Sometimes, when you don’t hear about something for awhile,
you get lulled into a daydream that all
is well, that no more needs to be done or said.
So it is with gay marriage. With
only sporadic appearances on the news stage now and then, you kind of assume
that things are swimming along smoothly to a perhaps distant, but certain finish.
That complacent feeling was swept aside recently when the
issue was thrust again front and center, above the fold, in both the media and
in our conscience. The reason for this sudden surge in attention…the Supremes, as in court. In what seems like an instant, but in reality
has been eons in coming, gay marriage has reached the pinnacle of our judicial
system. The Supremes are examining this from the perspective of two different
cases, and will, within months, issue decisions that will have lasting
significance for all of us.
Such a fuss. Over
what? States worry about “procreation
rights,” while the federal government frets over “benefits.” Groups fear the world as they know it
will end, that the family will be destroyed (personal aside – the rest of us have been doing a fine job of this without any additional help from anyone,
thank you). And then there is the
ever present “the Bible says.” So many
voices, so many concerns, so many opinions. It’s awfully easy to get lost in
this thorny forest.
Sometimes “we the people” make things a lot more complicated
than they deserve, when in reality, the right thing to do is so very clear and
right before us. Maybe we need to just sit atop that fence post, and ponder. Maybe we need to look at this from a more
basic view…the most basic view, a simple view, if you will. More often than we give it credit for, simple works just fine. We need to consider the human aspect. How utterly
novel would that be.
And what does a look at our common humanity tell us? We are all here on this earth, this tiny,
little insignificant speck of dust in our universe, for what, 85 years. It’s
just a blink of an eye in the scope of time.
It’s here, and it’s gone. We have
so little time for life and all it offers; we should reserve no time
for pettiness.
That in mind, should not all persons, of whatever persuasion, be able to
be with the one they love as they travel life’s short journey, and in their brief
time here, to strive for their little instant of happiness? And should not all
persons be able to legally and rightfully, on equal basis, if they
so choose … marry?
It all sounds so simple, doesn’t it? It sounds so inherently…..human. Which after all, is exactly what all of us
are, or profess to be.
Now, go write your law.
Mark Twain Quote:
“There isn’t time – so brief is life – for bickerings, apologies,
heartburnings, callings to account.
There is only time for loving – and but an instant, so to speak, for
that.”
