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Related: About this forumReligion Motivates The Few Participants In National Anti-Gay Marriage Rally
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/06/19/3451144/march-for-marriage-religion/BY ZACK FORD AND SHANNON GREENWOOD JUNE 19, 2014 AT 6:19 PM UPDATED: JUNE 19, 2014 AT 7:16 PM
Signs distributed at the march had Spanish on one side and English on the other.
CREDIT: SHANNON GREENWOOD, THINKPROGRESS
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) hosted its second annual March For Marriage Thursday in front of the U.S. Capitol, a rally with speakers opposing same-sex marriage followed by a march to the Supreme Court. An estimated 2,000 people participated, many of whom had traveled by bus from New Jersey and New York City. After last years march, which was held in conjunction with the Supreme Court hearing on the Defense of Marriage Act, NOM attempted to inflate the numbers, but this years crowd was smaller than even the most conservative estimates from last year.
Both on the dais and in the crowd, religious beliefs were the driving force behind attendeess opposition to same-sex marriage. ThinkProgress spoke with several members of the crowd to get a sense of why they were participating, and most cited their religious beliefs as their primary motivation. In particular, many were religious leaders themselves or specifically came to the march with a church group.
Mary from Virginia Beach explained to ThinkProgress that she is a devout Catholic who believes that marriage is a covenant between a man, a woman, and God, and we cannot change what the Bible defines. She actually suggested that she would be okay with civil unions for same-sex couples, but she was also concerned that children would read books and learn that same-sex marriage is okay, even though its against their families beliefs: Civil unions? What you do is your business, but what you teach my children is a whole different thing. She added that if she learned that her own children were gay, she would be disappointed, and that it would break her heart if they got married, because she believes that acting on homosexuality is a sin.
Jasmine came to the march from New York City because she was asked to by her church: I was told by my church ministry to come out here and support what we believe in, which is a man and a woman to get married and unite and have children If a man and a man were to get married, that would violate that law. Even though New York now has same-sex marriage, she believes in repentance for same-sex couples and that God can still touch their hearts and turn them into His steps.
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Religion Motivates The Few Participants In National Anti-Gay Marriage Rally (Original Post)
cbayer
Jun 2014
OP
Whiplash!! but I think that some of faith have not been responsible for such acts
intaglio
Jun 2014
#4
trotsky
(49,533 posts)1. Really?
intaglio
(8,170 posts)2. Thanks for this
Not because of the lack of motivation from religion but because many (or most) of the participants in the rally will have been religious and used their own conscience to guide them. This is what I was driving at in that earlier thread - praise goes to them for the support.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)3. I give them no praise and agree that this is a situation where religion
should be held responsible of something that is unsupportable.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)4. Whiplash!! but I think that some of faith have not been responsible for such acts
Much of what is taught is at fault but some individuals and groups show true, excuse the word, charity (virtue or caritas in Latin)
Let's finish this here before our heads spin so fast they fly off.
Best wishes
TlalocW
(15,381 posts)5. Oh, they already had their rally?
The one they've been pitching for a while? Only 2000 people?
*sad trombone*
Isn't that pretty comparable to what Operation American Spring pulled?
*sad trombone*
TlalocW