Just a few random notes about love, Valentine's Day, Freedom to Marry week, etc. ...
I subscribe to "alerts" via CNN on a few issues (and obituaries), and this link was in my email box today: Soap features daytime TV's first lesbian wedding. Apparently, "All My Children's" broadcast today included a wedding between two women as part of an ongoing plot line. I could wish they'd scheduled the ceremony for last week as part of Freedom to Marry, but it's good that it happened anyway. Of course, a Focus on the Family representative is quoted expressing disapproval, saying lesbian weddings are one of "a lot of things people really don't want to see." Hmmmm... checking my list of things I don't really want to see, I find 'lesbian weddings' is not on the list. On the other hand, I'd really rather not see people forced into loveless marriages to conform to societal norms. I'd really rather not see people pushed to the brink of suicide (and beyond) because of unacceptance. And I'd really rather not see children and adolescents bullied and harassed because they're 'different' in any way. But, I'm funny that way...
The "Just Love" service went well yesterday! We talked about what love means (I included the reading from I Corinthians that is almost ubiquitous at weddings); things that "say I Love You" (with poetry from UU poet and former US poet laureate Ted Kooser); and fairness - or justice - and love (using an adaptation of a fun children's book by Linda deHaan and Stern Nijland titled King & King.
Finally, here's a video a seminary friend posted on his Facebook page, that I wanted to share. Finance guru Suze Orman, speaking out about the unfairness of gay marriage bans, as being unfair to people financially. OK - so a lot of you are saying, "Duh!" but this is a point of view not often heard. Every little piece of unfairness needs to be exposed... (Sorry, the embed code doesn't seem to want to be cut-and-pasted, so I'm providing the link...)
2 comments:
Dear friend - I watched the video clip of the lesbian wedding yesterday and found it well done. However, the mother of one of the women is the well known soap character Ericka Kane, who has been married 14 times! Now, that I find both a hoot and a sham. Such is life on a soap opera. But, it was a landmark episode. And if "a lot of things people really don't want to see" is an issue, let them press the remote to a game show or Jerry Springer. Now there's real life! LOL
In any event, with all of the things going on in the world these days, who needs soap operas? What we do need, however, is a lot more love.
You go, girlfriend.
Wowie! I should have waited to watch the Suze Orman video before leaving my last comment so I could add to it.
She looked a little pissed of!
She told it as it is.
She ROCKS!
As you do, dear friend!
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