A brief political/religion example
I found these gems on the internet today:
- Definition of a Liberal or What God thinks of liberals
- According to the Bible… LIBERAL equals NOBLE and GENEROUS!
- SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS IN THE BIBLE
I don’t often poke the religion monster, but today I heard an interesting comment whilst in the mall. Something along the lines of, “All those liberals are going to hell. It say’s so in the bible!” No I often take crazy old lady speak with a grain of salt. Thou, since I often consider myself liberal (thou, that may be misleading, since I often support conservative actions in some matters), I felt it was important to confirm if the bible did in-fact condemn me to hell. That’s how I came across those snips.
Now, granted… only the first two somewhat address my concern. It appears to be a problem with translation and where or not you take all the bible literally. In Canada we have been flogging the issue of same sex marriage for some time now. We have our ultra conservatives that won’t stand for it, our ultra liberals that are fighting to have it; and, the rest (and majority) of the people who don’t care.
Most of the liberals see this as a policy issue within the churches, and acknowledge that under the Canadian Charter of Rights Gay people should probably be allowed to get married; but, they can’t really tell them to do that because religions also have some rights against being told what they can and can not do. In other words, the political framework allows for all this to take place already. It’s mostly a matter of the churches figuring out how to make it work for them.
The conservatives seem to be mostly on the religious side of the debate. Taking the bible and church policy as the measure for government policy. Apparently our “diverse” country of Canada with all it’s “torrence” is only applicable if your Christian. If your not Christian you don’t count; and, if your a “bad” Christian you count even less.
Now, I’m not going to go into much detail about how obvious separation of church and state should be. Needless to say, this matter would be over if this was a pure policy decision. Instead we have personal beliefs that may or may not be effected by religious teachings/polices, effecting our governments ability to make a simple decision. Seriously, people should be free to love who ever they want. If they want to join that social intuition of marriage, let them. If we don’t do that, they’ll just call it something else… make up their own system for managing it… and eventually get the government to give them pathetic tax incentives(?). Either way, they win and we wasted millions of dollars (it must be the liberal in me that says we could spend that on making our next generation of kids *not* fat?)
