A religious reflection on Maine

Extract from a personal reflection by Harry Knox:

It is clear that most voters in Maine, like majorities in other states before them, intend for me to feel less than human. People we respect as sisters and brothers in the human family, we treat as equals. Those majorities have reserved to themselves a legal right they feel specially entitled to – in spite of the fact that my husband and I face all the health, financial, familial and social challenges they do, and need the same supports they enjoy.

Here’s what I know.

I know that I was never more beautifully and powerfully human in my life than the day I committed myself to lifelong partnership with my caring, strong, handsome, wise, funny husband. We made ourselves vulnerable to care for each other forever, come what may. There is no more hopeful, faithful, joyful, generative act in all the world. It was a decision only humans could enter into both intellectually and spiritually. It was a total giving of ourselves to each other, and as such, it mirrored in part the gift Christ made for us on the Cross.

Read it all at Human Rights Campaign.


Integrity has issued a press release.

Thursday's NYT has an analysis of what the setback in Maine may mean.

Posted by John B. Chilton on November 4, 2009 8:42 PM | |
Comments (1)

Thanks be to God for those who do the basic research, without which we cannot understand the issues of the past or the present. Here's an excellent article, "The New Testament and Homosexuality" by Abraham Smith, professor of New Testament and Greek at Perkins School of Theology, SMU, Dallas, TX.
It's available online at http://www.quarterlyreview.org/pdfs/VOL11NO4WINTER1991.pdf

Posted by E H Culver [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 5, 2009 10:54 AM

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