Seeing as it is Valentines Day this week, I started thinking how this whole Valentines Day- idea came to pass. Valentines Day wasn’t always this commercial facade it is now. It wasn’t always a day where you have to give a sign of your love to the person you care for, are involved with or admire from a distance.

Valentines Day actually celebrates one of the saddest events in history. It celebrates a martyr who died for the sake of love and the holiness and sanctification of marriages. At the risk of sounding like a fundamentalist, I can’t help but ask how today’s Valentines Day compares to the need there was at a time for someone to die for the sake of people to be able to get married. This is where my mind wanders and i want to direct a call to the homosexual community, please listen carefully, why not have a pride parade on Valentines Day? That would authentically be what Valentines Day is about. Taking the step against the laws to marry people, who want to and should be together. If society wants to make such a big issue about homosexuality, that they see as a threat and all those ridiculous things they fight about, then maybe its time for the community that do not have an issue with same sex marriages, who believes God loves all and believes God is a God of relationships and therefore cannot really understand how God could condemn people in same sex relationships, to take a stand. Why don’t we take to the streets for a change and picket? Why don’t we claim a day like Valentines Day, take away the commercial and start fighting for the right for people to be in relationships.

This is a very sensitive topic and I know that I am overstepping certain boundaries, but at the end of the day the question comes to mind, why haven’t we done something like claimed these days? Why are the people who don’t mind, the people who believe that people should be allowed to love who they love, not vocal enough? Why are we not standing up for the rights of those who are being suppressed and mistreated by society? Why do we sit idly and quietly by and listen how they get torn apart, have their humanity stripped away from them and voice that we don’t agree to what they are doing to each other but we are not the people who step forward? Why do we let them fight their own battles.

 I asked, “What would Jesus do on Valentines Day?” and a part of my heart wishes Jesus was here being completely radical and would take to the streets... ahh wait He did that, He took to the streets, He shunned people in charge and the leaders and He organised this radical belief that all should be saved and all are equal in God’s eyes. Maybe Jesus would have organised a pride parade on Valentines Day. Just so that people can remember that Valentines Day is a day of love and that it was born out of the loss of someone who believed that the union of two people are far more important than the laws of a country. Maybe He would have handed out wooden hearts and one of His disciples would have handed out rainbow coloured paint.

This is not only a plight for the gay community or to stir the pot. It is trying to understand why I am allowed to celebrate Valentines Day with my husband and be happy and nobody frowns upon it and that my relationship with my husband is supported and not condemned. Where as, even though some of my closest friends have reached a point where they don’t care what society thinks and says about them, are still affected. Where they would for the sake of just being accepted, spend Valentines Day at home, hidden behind curtains and doors, trying to celebrate their love for each other.

Today’s blog is just a ramble of thoughts and excitement, yet it is also a rambling of a person who is trying to figure out how society can function the way it does. How it can say that same sex marriages is the enemy of the institution they call marriage, but in the same breath declare that it is okay to get divorced and it is okay that marriages of heterosexual people are in some cases more the ruin of some relationships and people’s relationship with God, than people in the homosexual community. Maybe this Valentines day it is time to catch a wakeup.

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