With great interest I tune into the "gloom and doom" sayers concerning marriage equality. According to them, if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the various same-sex marriage bans enacted by some of the states, the ten plagues which befell Egypt will be nothing in comparison to what God has planned for us.
According to Bill Koenig of the World Watch Daily, gay rights in America are the reason California is going through its worst drought in History. God is angry with us!
It has to be that. The drought couldn't be the result of America's 100-year love affair with the internal combustion engine. Let's face it, that Global Warming scare is a hoax. We can trust the Republican Party (the wholly owned subsidiary of the oil industry).
The question I have is this: If marriage equality in the United States will bring down the wrath of God, why haven't we seen something similar in the 18 other countries which allow same-sex marriage. Is it a case that God doesn't pay attention to anything happening outside the United States. Doesn't God care about what happens in those countries.
Currently, 18 nations permit same-sex marriages In 2001, The Netherlands was the first nation to make marriage equality the rule of law. After that came: Belgium in 2003; Spain and Canada in 2005; South Africa in 2006; Norway and Sweden in 2009; Portugal, Iceland and Argentina in 2010; Denmark in 2012; Brazil, France, Uruguay, New Zealand and the United Kingdom in 2013; and Luxembourg and Finland in 2014.
There are two countries where marriage equality is legal in some areas: The United States and Mexico. And there are three countries which may legalize same-sex marriages sometime in the near future: Slovinia, Australia and Columbia.
I lived in Massachusetts in 2004 when the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying was unconstitutional. We were told that legalizing gay marriage would lead to the destruction of the traditional family and traditional marriage. We were told it would be the end of Western civilization as we know it. We were told it would lead to the persecution of Christians and the final apocalypse. We were told the same things the religious right is saying today. And nothing happened!
The Religious Right was wrong then and it is wrong now. And when what ever they have said will happen doesn't happen, they will not admit they were wrong.They will just turn their attention to some new controversy, which they, no doubt create, and predict the end of the world again.