The word FAMILY is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as follows:
fam·i·ly (fām'ə-lē, fām'lē)
n. pl. fam·i·lies
1. A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children.
2. Two or more people who share goals and values, have long-term commitments to one another, and reside usually in the same dwelling place.
3.) A group of like things; a class.
4.) A group of individuals derived from a common stock: the family of human beings.
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I see you driving around
with your man+woman=child stickers
on the bumpers of your soccer-mom minivans.
I see all your Jesus saves decals
right next to your bigotted ideologies,
and all I ask is:
Who do you think you are.
Which holy messiah died
and made you the next self-righteous prophet;
the lord, master and architect
to design the perfect happy home?
Who let you become the lexicographer
and redefine the term family
as being only a man and a woman and their children?
Marriage is a sacred vow,
to have and to hold, from this day forward,
for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer,
in sickness and health, until death do us part.
Do you think that just because
we are two men or two women
we are not just as capable of
this level of commitment?
can you not see that the term Life-Partner
is just a substitution for the words husband and wife?
Who are you to set the terms
of our pursuit of justice, happiness, and prosperity?
You say that our nature "offends" you,
that your God frowns upon homosexuality
I always thought that God was tolerant
that it was him who designed my heart and my soul
to love and cherish completely
blind to sex, blind to color,
So please new messiah, tell me your name.
Who are you?
You defame me and my family
call us heretics and blasphemers
that go against the "natural order" of things
When in actuality your "natural order"
has been the rule only since
your Christ died... your tolerant, patient, and loving Christ
The one who died for your sins of hypocrisy.
So please before you judge me and my family
see past the fact that we are not like you
that we found love in the arms
of another man or woman, look past that to see
the love that we share for eachother
the love we have for our kids
look past the obvious nature of us
and see that no matter the form
love is love, the same love you have
the same love that all of us desire to obtain.
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~Tia
John
