I don't normally read Bob Herbert's pieces in the Times because is generally feels like I'm in the choir being berated by the preachers, but today he hits a home run.
He really takes an interesting tack on the gay marriage debate with regards to invoking God when discomfort arises.
We have a tendency to prohibit things simply because we don't like them. Because they don't appeal to us. They don't feel quite right. Or we've never done it that way before. And when things don't feel quite right, when they make us uncomfortable, we often leap, with no basis in fact, to the conclusion that they are unnatural, immoral, degenerate, against the will of God.
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