Same Love

My new favorite song is "Same Love" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Featuring Mary Lambert. The song speaks out against discriminating among gays and homosexuals and it fights for the fact that all love is the same. The main purpose of the song is to advocate for gay rights and gay marriage, but unfortunately this is what makes the song so controversial for many Christians.

In the music video, it profiles a gay man from birth to death. It shows him playing with friends in elementary school, facing the confusion and struggles of addressing his sexuality as a teenager, and finally finding love as an adult and being forced to accept the prejudices and slander that accompanies it.

The final scene shows him as an old man dying in the hospital while his partner holds his hand. The verse from I Corinthians 13:1-13 is repeated: "Love is patient; love is kind." It's interesting that we just read this passage in class and now it has so much more meaning to me. All love is the same. All love is patient. All love is kind.
"Love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."  I Corinthians 13:1-13.

It is a beautiful video and I definitely did my share of crying!