I like to think that it means something good, that there's even an argument about gay marriage, when not so long ago no one would have seriously thought it stood a chance. I like to think that the scale is tipping towards tolerance, that sooner or later there will be no one left to listen to the homophobes.
But.
There are people I don't think I can convince that their opinion could use revising, because where can I start? What basic principle can we both agree on? I feel like all my deepest beliefs, all my principles ("There's no such thing as a law of conservation of happiness", "If God wants to take back his endorsement of love, he can tell me in person", "A god who demands that I behave unethically or immorally is no god of mine") would just slide off, because "It's not in the Bible". Except for when it is, like love thy neighbor as thyself.
Maybe that's the problem. Maybe these people don't love themselves at all, so they have trouble loving anyone else.
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But.
There are people I don't think I can convince that their opinion could use revising, because where can I start? What basic principle can we both agree on? I feel like all my deepest beliefs, all my principles ("There's no such thing as a law of conservation of happiness", "If God wants to take back his endorsement of love, he can tell me in person", "A god who demands that I behave unethically or immorally is no god of mine") would just slide off, because "It's not in the Bible". Except for when it is, like love thy neighbor as thyself.
Maybe that's the problem. Maybe these people don't love themselves at all, so they have trouble loving anyone else.