I was disappointed that a majority of North Carolinian voters voted to enshrine discrimination to the state constitution Tuesday. Many pointed to the Bible as their justification.
The way I see it, God gave some people blue eyes and some people brown eyes. God made some people black, some white, some Asian, and so on. Likewise, God made some people straight and some people gay. It is not for us to question God’s wisdom! I’ve always wondered how some can claim to know God better than God Himself. Let he who is without sin …
It isn’t right for amendment opponents to call those who supported this amendment misguided, or uninformed, or hateful. Only when these folks see that gays are people, too – people who simply want to love whom they want on equal terms with everyone else – will attitudes change.
I’ve only been on this planet for 43 years but it seems to me that one thing this world could use is more love.