A video gone viral brings me to tears every time I have watched it.  It was produced by Love Has No Labels and opens by showing two skeletons kissing behind a screen. Thus begins a love-fest which evidences that the societally imposed separation based on gender, age, religion, ability, family form or national origin is an artificial construct. Beneath the surface, we are all the same. If you didn’t know that someone looked different, worshipped in a manner that was not as you did, loved someone of the same gender, or had a body didn’t conform to a particular standard, you would have no basis for rejecting or hating anyone.

I have people in my life who fit into all of those categories, but don’t dare put them in a box that says “all …. fill in the blank … are this way”. On the page on You Tube on which this video was posted were comments of viewers. Some cheered while others jeered. Those who disapproved of the aspects that celebrated same sex relationships were spewing hatred in the name of religion. I have a hard time accepting even the most remote consideration that a God of love could create people who love someone of the same gender and then condemn them for it. Some of the content had to do with ‘protecting the sancity’ of the marriage between a man and a woman. How, I would like to know, does two men or two women loving and committing to each other, in any way, threaten someone else’s marriage?  That tells me more about the person making that statement; that he or she doesn’t feel secure in their own governmentally sanctioned union. I question someone’s fear and hatred in the name of Spirit. The God that I know is not about fear or condemnation; but about love and acceptance.

This video was filmed on Valentines’ Day, which could not have been more perfect, as it celebrates love in all forms.