Abortion and Gay Marriage

Let’s take a look at Gay Marriage and Abortion, shall we?

I want to start with Abortion as this is a more controversial topic for me as Gay Marriage should be cut and dry.

I will start by asking two simple questions: When does the soul enter the body? What makes me me and not you?

While I am pro-choice, I truly see the other side of the argument. I was stubborn on this subject until a friend of mine in college explained that his Mother was almost forced into having an abortion, in which case he would not have been born. This really opened my eyes.

I began reading “A Brief History of Time” by maybe the most brilliant man to have ever lived, Stephen Hawking. The idea of God is brought up and he offers a plausible explanation, however there is no way to be sure of anything, which Hawking makes clear. The only subject that was not brought up in the book which I was hoping may have been was the idea of a soul. Why do I see through my eyes, and not through the eyes of Mr. Hawking, or a current athlete for whom I envy, or for a historical figure for whom I despised? What about animals, or living organisms? These questions are what continue to haunt this argument. At the end of the day, I do believe a woman has the right to choose what she does with her body, however if we were to find out the impossible knowledge of when a soul enters the body, and it happened to be at conception, then maybe my view would be swayed.

Now onto the topic of Gay Marriage. I hear it all the time; the Bible states “Marriage between a man and woman” blah blah blah. Not only was this theoretically written close to a time when the Ancient Etruscan’s were still introducing the three pronged utensil (now known as a fork) to society,  it is misinterpreted and used by those who have no business riding a high moral horse.

Think about all of the sins the people of the world who are adamant about this principle commit daily. It’s a way for hypocrites to convince themselves they are good people. And if someone wants to posit that it is also used by those who commit no sins according to the bible, I will refer them to the recent revelation that more than 300 Priests were performing inappropriate acts on more than 1000 innocent children. But I guess the Bible never explicitly said this was a sin, so…

The point I’m trying to make is that logic and reason will always trump (I hate this word now) what is commonly referred to as “faith.” Those who use the faith argument are impossible to reason with, and thus I avoid those conversations. However, I encourage productive discussion, as this is how I came to the Abortion revelation, and the ensuing questions about the soul and what makes each person unique to this world.