Love is Love

Imagine being in love with someone so deeply that you want to spend the rest of your life with that person, and ask for his or her hand in marriage. But you aren’t able to because you and your lover are of same sex, and live in a state like Texas where gay marriage is prohibited. There is a loophole though, you do have the option of traveling one thousand miles to the closest state that allows you to wed. Initially, some people may think that’s okay, it’s just another adventure in your life right? But, think about how that must feel. Having to move and say goodbye to friends, family, probably a job and a house. Giving up everything you’ve established, and then starting all over, simply because you want to marry the person you love. The main argument against gay marriage is religion, that it’s against certain religious faiths for a woman and woman or a man and a man to be married. It’s only permitted to one man and one woman. Now, I don’t know about other religions but I do know that in Christianity homosexuality is described as a sin. However, it’s not described to be greater than any other sin. Therefore homosexuality isn’t worse than arrogance, arguing, bitterness, things we all encounter or do as humans.
Also there are things described in the bible that we now have laws against doing such as spanking a child. The bible clearly states, “Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die....the rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.” (Proverbs 23:13-29:15). Today something done even along the lines of this statement would be condemned as child abuse. This points out that things change, everything evolves, and I believe that not accepting gays and gay marriage should be the next thing to change.
I should clarify that I’m not bashing religion or Christianity specifically; I’m Christian and most of the people I know who support gay marriage are Christian also. Instead, I’m