love

Professor, McDonald

Writing 121

David Dixon

Love in not enough

I love you! I want to marry you! You’re my life and soul! Those words and feeling are the most amazing words and feelings that a person will have in their life. Some of you already know that feeling, and some of you will find out how it feels. Love is one of the most powerful feelings that a person can have. It can bring the strongest person in the world to their knees and make them a little crying baby or happy as child getting their first candy. Love will make a person act in ways that people would call crazy.

Shakespeare tried to define love in this poem: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved (Shakespeare, William). Even this great writer could only come close to the definition of love. I want you to think about love if you would as you read this paper. I would like your heart to read this paper not your head. I want you to imagine what I am going to tell as if you in these story. I want you to think what would you feel and what would you do. Also would you ever want anyone to feel that way in his or her life: your kids, mother, father, friend, or anyone in world.

     Now with that all being said, I am going to give you a scenario. You’re in Florida with person you love with all your heart and soul. They are the sun, the ocean, everything beautiful in your life. You are looking and thinking how you could not live without them. Then at that moment they collapse and you catch them in your arms. You have no clue why they collapsed. You are scared! You are holding them and you don’t know how to help them. Someone calls 911 for you because the only thing you can do is focus on holding them and looking into their eyes as they are going in and out of consciousness. You are feeling helpless inside. You’re lost! Then the ambulance shows up. You feel that it could be OK. You are thinking that they will take care of the person you love.

     You get into the ambulance and head to hospital. You are holding their hand and telling them everything will be OK. You will be next to them and when they awake you promise them you’d be there. Your heart is throbbing in excruciating pain. Now you arrive at the hospital. They take your love in and you go to front desk to give them all the information they need. Then you ask if they can tell you what is going on and if you can go in and see your love one. You know you want to hold them. The person at the front desk tells you “no, you cannot get any information and you cannot go into see them”. They tell you that you are not recognized as their immediate family. At this point you are lost because you cannot find out any information and cannot go into see your love. Your heart drops so far down that you do not know if you can live. Then when you think there can be no pain worse then this, you find out your love and soul has died and was calling for you right before they passed away. Close your eyes and take a second to think about how you feel. Then think about if you were watching your child having to deal with this right in front of your eyes and you can do nothing to help, but watch them be torn in pieces and get their heart ripped out of their chest. Do you think this has happened, and after reading this would you want anyone to go through this in life?

     The sad part is that it has happened, but worse their children could not see their dying mother: “Woman sues Miami hospital after being denied visitation of partner”

(Sun-Sentinel). I do not think that anyone would want people to suffer like that. It is hard for me to believe somebody would be that cruel to let that happen. Would you have the heart to deny them to their face and see their pain? How about if was your child? Then would you have heart to tell them no? Well when you vote no on marriage equality that is what you are doing. You are telling them that their pain does not matter. Oh by the way the Miami couple was lesbian.

People will give the Bible as the reason for saying no. Ask yourself what part of the Bible says it is wrong. Some people will come up with Leviticus, which is Old Testament law, and says nothing of women with women only with men. If you want to go by Old Testament law then why do you not follow all the laws from the Old Testament? Is it because it does not fit your life? Or you think the laws are wrong? Do you think they are out dated?  If you do not follow all the old laws but just one, is that right? I would call that cherry picking only what you want to follow. Is that right? Well I will not be able to answer that for you, but you should for yourself.

Also ask yourself what was marriage before today? Again people will say the Bible or history defines marriage as a man and women. If you read the history of marriage it has changed many times over the years. It depends what year you go back to as to what marriage is.  Women were bought and sold like livestock.  You could not marry outside your race. The Bible supports those laws too. Bible also supported slavery. Wikipedia says this “Marriage can be recognized by a state, an organization, a religious authority, a tribal group, a local community or peers. It is often viewed as a contract”(Wikipedia). So as you can see marriage is viewed differently by everyone. There is one thing out of the Bible that everyone should look at the same.

Jesus did not once say being gay was wrong. He did say in John 8:7 “and as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her”.” (Bible Hub). What do you think he meant by that? I think he meant not to judge anyone unless they are without sin. I do not know anyone without sin. That means we should not judge anyone whatsoever. That is what Jesus would want. He wants everyone to watch after one another and love one another. He was against hate of any kind. So if you really love Jesus be more like him.