God has provided us various good fruits for our nourishment. Don't waste the seeds by just simply discarding them away mindlessly. Rather, after you have tasted of the goodness of the Lord and have been satisfied by His blessing, invest a good portion of your time scattering the seeds of those fruits on good grounds where they have a good chance of growing and thriving. In that way, you have shared hope for others to be able to also partake of the fruit you have been blessed. In the future, when those seeds will have grown into trees and shall bear fruits, others too will benefit from the fruits of those trees as you have. Then people of today and the succeeding generations shall rejoice and glorify the Lord for the blessings handed down to them.
Do your part with due diligence and leave the rest to the Lord. For it's for man to scatter the seeds and tend the plants; but it's for God to grow them and make them bear fruit.
When tempted to judge or condemn someone, don't rush to put the person's light out by landing your knuckles right on his/her chin (so to speak). Rather, press your knuckles on your own chin; it shuts your mouth and it helps you turn your mental light bulb on -- and your dark thoughts will vanish.
The issue on the clamor by a mix of supporters from different sectors of our society for the legalization of same-sex union should perhaps not just be centered on the theme "human rights and anti-discrimination". There are things surrounding the issue that must also be given due consideration and importance because of the ramification that this particular issue could bring about.
Perhaps we simply don't mind people we don't know or who are not close to us having same-sex relationship. But what if one of them or both of them are our close friends? Or, one of them is a member of our own family? Or, what if both of them are members of our own family?
Citing just some sort of possibilities surrounding this issue perhaps would trigger something worthy of careful consideration. Now let's experiment with our tolerance and let's try to see how deep is the extent of our "relative morality". Most people simply don't mind gay people having same-sex union. That depth of tolerance let's designate as "A1". Below are given different situations of relationships. Be honest with yourself and try listening to the voice of wisdom of the totality of your inner human being and try gauging your tolerance as to how deep can you go down the scale.
A. People in a same-sex relationship: 1. Both persons you don't know 2. One is or both are your best friends 3. One is or both are your relatives 4. One is a member of your own family 5. Both are members of your own family
B. People in a brother-sister relationship: 1. Both persons you don't know 2. One is or both are your best friends 3. One is or both are your relatives 4. Both are members of your own family
C. People in a parent-adult child relationship: 1. Both persons you don't know 2. One is or both are your best friends 3. One is or both are your relatives 4. Both are members of your own family D. You yourself are in a "not-permitted" relationship: 1. Your partner is not related to you 2. Your partner is your best friend 3. Your partner is a close relative of you 4. Your partner is a member of your own family
Tolerating something doesn't necessarily equate to agreeing with that thing or accepting it. But when is tolerance a virtue and when is it a vice?
If same-sex union has to be legalized for the sake of human rights and anti-discrimination, then what reasons would there be left for the government as its defense to continue upholding its prohibition on other "unlawful" unions?
If it is insisted that same-sex union must be given equal rights under the law, then brother-sister union and parent-adult child union must likewise be given equal rights under the law when the time comes that people would insist on their legalization, otherwise limiting legalization to same-sex union only would be grossly dicriminatory to the other two prohibited unions.
How did the prohibition of these particular relationships came about? Are the norms of this prohibition based on religious beliefs or scientific beliefs? In the long history of human civilizations all over the world, how are the societies doing as they prohibited or allowed such said relationships among them?
