Saturday, April 23, 2011

A late Commentary/Critique

Well. I totally let this assignment slip past my mind. So I'm doing it now rather than never!

I sat down to read through some of my classmates blogs, yet, I didn't get past the first one. P.B.'s post about Gay Marriage stopped me dead in my tracks. I began reading through it, and found myself agreeing and laughing quite a few times. So I decided to just go with this one for my assignment.

To begin, the author opened up the blog post with quite a funny hook. The use of this small couple of sentences definitely draws in the readers by making them laugh. However, after this, P.B. blatantly states the topic that is going to be discussed at hand. Which makes you take it seriously.

As I read through the blog, P.B. went on to explain how idiotic, mindless and pointless it is for people to follow certain ideas about homosexuals. How "sheeple" look down on things that they don't even make an attempt to understand. P.B. goes on to quote scriptures from the Bible and pointing out the flaws in those writings. Flaws that "gay-bashers" don't ever really pay attention to. Most of these flaws are things that people commit quite often, yet, there is no constant condemnation of them. 

Doing this, P.B. explained that "gay-basher" pick and choose between what they want to use against people.

Also, the way P.B. ended this post is so freaking true. Just saying.


Now, the only problem I had with P.B.'s post is that (s)he never mentioned the major fault with this situation. A lot of people bring this to the table, and it does get kind of knocked down every time. The separation of church and state.

Basically, one of my major points is, the decision to allow gay marriages to take place should be up to the Priest/Pastor/etc asked to perform it. The Marriage Ceremony is not a government issue, and never should be. Many of the State's governments have chosen to completely ignore gay marriage. Some settle in between by allowing civil unions, or by recognizing their rights.

I personally, as a gay (Christian) male, don't care too much about the damn rights. It's more about the banning of the ceremony that gets on my nerves.


So, that's that. I wanna say thank you to P.B. for that entertaining and wonderful post!

- Blake

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