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Remember, gay marriage 'hurts no one'...

This is sad: Salvation Army may be forced to leave New York due to new gay marriage laws.

The sad part is:

(1) the Salvation Army provides much needed care for the homeless, foster kids, troubled teens and AIDS patients, among others

and (2) look at the subtext behind the debate:

The Salvation Army is being asked to provide benefits for spouses of gay employees...
...which means they have gay employees.
...which means even though they're a religious organization, they obviously don't discriminate in terms of employment on the basis of sexual orientation or behavior.
...which means they (correctly) treat gays as actual people--deserving of respect and just as capable of caring for the needy as anyone else--without making any 'moral judgements' from a professional standpoint.
...which means, in short, the Salvation Army already treats gays just as well as they could reasonably expect from any organization.

And, yet, they are now an 'intolerant' organization because they're not willing to spend their money to support the new gay marriage ideology...

Can someone convince me that at its heart the gay marriage debate isn't basically about money?

May 26, 2004 in Current Affairs | Permalink

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