Jazzper™

I am well aware of the very delicate issue this is, having a somewhat "churchy" background and being raised after somewhat Christian values. But I am happy today and I celebrate the outcome of the voting. Despite me calling myself an atheist, I am still very interested in what's happning inside the thick walls of what's supposed to be a jolly and lovable family, the church (my ass...).

I have met a couple of Christian gays and talking to and meeting them is very sad and tragic in every way. They keep hanging on to a religion and a god who discriminate people and forgetting about the very foundation of Christianity itself: love. I wonder how they do it. Why they do it. Why praise and worship a god that sees their love as something bad? If you ask me, that kind of god is not worthy any attention at all. Also, this is where the problem is: the church is based on the Bible and a belief in god.

 I haven't read the Bible that many times and I haven't been searching for signs that the situation is different, but according to the Christian mass, gay marriage in church would be wrong. I respect that frakking old-fashioned, awful and inhuman idea; after all, that is what Christianity ultimately is:  frakking old-fashioned, awful and inhuman idea. I respect it and I hate it.

Instead I wish that marriage itself could be revised and thought upon differently. Marriage as we know it today, is a religious ritual, but who says we can't lift it out of the religious context and make it all-avaliable? The problem today is that marriage isn't only about religion and love - it's also about legal rights. A not married couple doesn't have the same rights and isn't equal in front of the law as married couples. This is what needs to be changed. In a secular country like Sweden, few couples get married "religiously" anyway even if they marry in church and by a priest. It's tradition and a romantic goal for many of us to achieve. It is time to leave the idea of marriage being a religous ritual behind and instead let it be what it is to many of us anyway: an act of love and law. The church doesn't have copyright of love and the sincere wish to publicly announce it!

The Bible and god has no place in a modern world and old rituals from the past shouldn't be a part of our tradition. Leave the Christian marriage to the blue-eyed Christians and let them sit inside their thick walls and let them live in their fantasty world. We don't need them, the church or their inhuman views on love.