Love Wins!

Awww, isn't that sweet? Love won today.

The ruling wasn't a surprise to me at all... but what I am surprised about is how little I'm reading the word "gay," and how much I'm reading the word "love" as people post about this news. I started asking myself what the opposite of that would be... "hate wins?"

A decade ago, I started thinking about how I was discovering over time after being married that the word love as an emotion means absolutely crap to me. Somebody could abuse someone and still say they loved them... say wha? This is when I dove into what love meant to me, including thoughts stemming from my religious studies. In church, I'm taught charity isn't just donating, it's the pure love of Christ. Loving someone means you'll support them, you'll take care of them, care about them and really put their needs above yours. Loving someone, is having a charitable spirit towards them - always.

Okay, so I was not in favor of the ruling that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. Marriage is a box definition from the beginning: one man and one woman. So, thinking outside the box, do I have a problem with same-sex couples having the rights I do? No, I don't mind at all. To me, this is about the definition of marriage and what that means... so back to "love wins."

If I'm opposed to the ruling, I must be in the hate category. Wanna know what's weird though? I don't hate gay or lesbian people. I can love them as easily as my heterosexual friends. shocker.
Something that was expressed with this campaign is "these people can finally express their love now!" Like Michelle, the first lady, who waited until an African-American man was President to finally be able to say she's proud to be an American. Sorry folks, I didn't know my desire to keep the institution of marriage pure and unchanged was preventing you from loving each other. My bad.

Congrats on the publicity, folks... the campaign, "love wins," has again made everyone that's not in favor, a "hater." Even though it's false. Just think about it.