Marriage and Religion

"Marriage, then, is far from being the effect of chance or the result of the blind evolution of natural forces. It is in reality the wise and provident institution of God the Creator, whose purpose was to effect in man His loving design. As a consequence, husband and wife, through that mutual gift of themselves, which is specific and exclusive to them alone, develop that union of two persons in which they perfect one another, cooperating with God in the generation and rearing of new lives." Pope, paragraph 8

I think we all have a good understanding of this paragraph of the Pope said. In this paragraph, he points out that marriage is only belong between woman and men, as they have the unique and exclusive gift from god. Because of these gifts, only men and women could have the joy of marriage and rearing of new lives. Pope's idea is very clear that Marriage love is belong and only belong to men and women. This is the limit of marriage, and also is the golden rule of marriage.

As a Chinese, I'm not much a believer so when talk to the problem of gay marriage, I really don't have much to say. However, I do understand why so many people will opposite gay marriage in America. Because America is a religions country. Most people in US is Christian, and what Christian believes is just what Pope said, marriage is only belong to men and women. So accept gay marriage is just to compromise your own belief. I think lots of people won't do that.

When we talked about "structure of feelings" we talked about how to see things as nature, and I think this is also the reason of why people opposite to gay marriage. We have been talk about that taking of what we taught to combine them to our lives. So what we learned from Pope or religion, is to see heterosexual as normal. That's why when there is homosexual, we think it is not normal and reject to it.

As a non believer, when I think about gay marriage, I think is just someone's personal choice, and I don't think religions should stand in the way.