As the Supreme Court hears the case on marriage equality in our country, I want to share the prayer we offered this past Shabbat as part of Freedom to Marry weekend of prayer:
When our
ancestors stood at the shores of sea, leaving slavery in Egypt behind as they
crossed over into a life of freedom, they endowed every subsequent generation
with the responsibility to bring that freedom into the world for all. Today, we
know that freedom is still an elusive concept, that the struggle for it is
real.
The Biblical
name for Egypt is Mitzrayim, the narrow place. In any place where people are
not free, it is a narrow place. And we acknowledge this Shabbat that our
country is still a narrow place because in many states, including our state of
Georgia, there is not the freedom of marriage equality. Too many people are
oppressed by the narrowness of prejudice, ignorance, fundamentalism, and
injustice. We are proud that at The Temple we believe that we are house of
prayer to all people, we are a house of prayer and gathering to all couples and
families, and that we stand for equality and human dignity.
So we stand
on this Freedom to Marry weekend of Prayer, joining with congregations of all faiths
around the country in praying that this Tuesday as the Supreme Court hears the
case on marriage equality, we begin to bring more freedom to our country. We
pray that all who stand on the shores of Mitzrayim, the narrow place of not
having equal rights simply because they identity as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or
transgender, will find that there will soon be a path towards freedom for them,
and thus freedom for us all.
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