Understandable celebration but over ‘a fleeting joy’

UNDERSTANDABLY, the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States by that country’s Supreme Court was met with rejoicing by the gay community who long have felt it to be their right to be treated just as equally like the others.

But, I look at it as a sad time for us so-called “straight” and firm believers in the holy sacrament of marriage, I being a Catholic. The Bible had it all told, that God created a man and a woman to be joined together as one. Not a man with another man or a woman with another woman.

Of course, I sympathize with the thousands of LGBTs (lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders) out there who grew up feeling different and having a different sexual preference. They surely cannot be faulted for what they have become.

But we must bow to God’s will. We are only His creatures and He is our Creator. Life is short and the afterlife is eternal. Why exchange Heaven for a few years of fleeting joy? Let us live in a way that we can be so sure we will not miss it.

—THERESA PILI-NISPEROS, Gagalangin, Tondo, Manila