Family members do not have to support all marriages and relationships.....

Great Aunt Martha seems so strict in her understanding of marriage.  She refuses to attend a marriage between Bob and Linda.  Bob has tattoos up to his neck and down his legs and has been in and out of jail a few times.  Linda has been in 7 marriages so far.  Great Aunt Martha loves her relative Linda, but she simply is exhausted trying to cater to every single new marriage that will work "this time."

In other words, there are some convictions in Great Aunt Martha which are not threatening the relative, but the relative and her friends may threaten the life of Great Aunt Martha.

As far as I am concerned, a marriage is NOT love, if the life of another person on planet earth is threatened!

Not attending or participating in certain events or showing support for certain relationships does NOT cause hatred to brew.  In fact, people who practice various forms of "sexual impurity" could have variant forms of racism or other issues that brew.

Brotherly and sisterly love is VERY normal and the universe is created to ALLOW it, because JESUS himself practiced it.  But to believe the line that ALL FORMS OF SEXUAL IMPURITY deserve equal chance at "stabbing" another person in a creative way, simply isn't necessary.

A disabled person who steals or hits another human being is just that, a "stabber."  He still deserves EQUAL OPPORTUNITY as anyone else, but when he is a "stabber" he deserves JUSTICE before the law, not a better chance to harm or damage another human being.  

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

(Mat 5:17-19)

And there is "the other side" too......... that doesn't always have the errors......we have that figured out by now (the desensitized to the reality of pain in human suffering)......we think.......sez the farmer.....who knew that great great great great grandmother Noah was a midwife.

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