Former Opponent Invites Gays to the Wedding Party

[cbayer]

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/candacechellew-hodge/6800/former_opponent_invites_gays_to_the_wedding_party_/


January 30, 2013 5:51pm
Post by CANDACE CHELLEW-HODGE
Candace Chellew-Hodge is the founder/editor of Whosoever: An Online Magazine for GLBT Christians and currently serves as the pastor of Jubilee! Circle in Columbia, S.C. She is also the author of Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians (Jossey-Bass, 2008)

Question: How do you know when the fight for marriage equality for gays and lesbians is about to be won?

Answer: When one of your former foes invites you to the table to discuss the future of marriage.

That’s what David Blankenhorn is doing. You remember Blankenhorn—he was one of the star witnesses defending Proposition 8 in California. In the trial, he argued that marriage should be between a man and a woman. His argument, he said, was not based in religion, but in anthropology. He also brought out the old saw that marriage was primarily for procreation.


He angered the anti-marriage equality camp when he wrote an op-ed in the New York Times reversing his opinion.

For me, the most important is the equal dignity of homosexual love. I don’t believe that opposite-sex and same-sex relationships are the same, but I do believe, with growing numbers of Americans, that the time for denigrating or stigmatizing same-sex relationships is over. Whatever one’s definition of marriage, legally recognizing gay and lesbian couples and their children is a victory for basic fairness.

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[okasha]

1. Good for him.

That little light bulb over his head is coming on.