As you mention God and His plan for marriage, this brings up another issue on the horizon as homosexual marriage spreads. Namely, are churches going to be sued for discrimination if they don’t perform homosexual marriages? Is there any mainstream religion today which does not consider homosexuality a sin, much less endorse through marriage in their denomination?
I hope and pray that the homosexual activists don’t start lawsuits against churches. That could be a future battle in this whole marriage issue.
Still - STILL ! .. Not one of my liberal friends, or anyone I’ve approached on the topic, can tell me why gay people want to get married.
I’m Married, before god and the state. I married a lovely woman, and together we are actually quite powerful to create a really nice environment. It’s calm, it’s stable, and it’s fun.
But if a religion bans you from getting married, and you’re not a member of that religion anyway, Why would one want to play ? That’s pretty similar to me bitching that I can’t be handfasted, or that I can’t marry multiple women, or what-have-you. It’s simply not my culture, and I’m not that religion !
Why can’t gays just live together and wear a fancy ring? OH That’s right. There is money to be made in some form.
I forgot.
This is why the abortifactent/contraception issue is so important right now. If the Government is permitted, even through accounting tricks, to force a church to go against its basic principles (a violation of the establishment and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment), then there is no limit to the degree government will decree church policy.
FOr all the babble of the 'wall of separation', there will be none, the State will have usurped the powere of the church to determine doctrine.
It used to be that if you didn't like what was on the menu, you were free to go elsewhere. Now everyone has to serve the whole state-approved fare.
It is the difference between equality of rights and equality of results.