Posted on 08/04/2012 7:06:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Civil marriage means nothing except that the Government accepts it as a marriage.
Establish two diferent marriages, The Civil and the one by God. Any Church that engages in same sex marriage is merely going against the Bible and the marriage is meaningless.
Yes, yes, yes.
Except - take the word "marriage" out of what the government does. Civil "union," okay. Not marriage. Marriage is a spiritual joining, connected with a church or a spiritual tradition or spiritual ceremony - not government. Period.
Then, let anyone "marry" anyone under their faith. So you're not just married - you're married under the Catholic Church, or the Unitarian Church, or the Jewish faith, or the Hindu faith.
But civil union is government, as an administrative function.
You know what this does? It not only ends the gay marriage argument - it returns marriage to its proper place in society: before God, rather than before government.
That's why it can't be resolved as it is - it's being argued wrongly by BOTH sides.
Good points. The marriage debate is not about marriage. It is about destroying the power of faith and the church. These will then be replaced by a secular progressive order in which the state alone will be worshiped. For an example look to the Episcopal Church. For decades the Gays preached tolerance. Once they gained power they crushed anyone who opposed them. A similar fate awaits our country.
” Marriage belongs to Church’s . The Government got into the marriage business to make a buck on licenses.”
I think you would find that it started with Henry VIII wanting to get a divorce. But it really got popular with the eugenics movement.
Leave it to the homo-Nazis to make even a wedding a political event.
There's an interesting oxymoron ... Can it be a "marriage" if it has only a secular dimension? Isn't that just another name for "contract?"
You're right on this Judge - 'tolerance' wasn't a belief system with them, it was a tool to use against us. Once they got the power, they tossed the tool.
I fear we've all been played for fools. The good thing about this Chich'fil'A thing, is it forced leftists to show us their true colors. They don't care about prejudice based on creed - they care about 'advantage' for their side. It's an eye-opener...
How would Sasha Issenberg write about the ‘love’ shared by a man and 50 potential ‘immigrants’ to the United States who all ‘love’ each other...
There was a time when people wouldn’t let blacks vote - and that was wrong so THEREFORE when people don’t like a man wanting to marry 50 men who want to be citizens of the United States, it’s a ‘Civil Rights’ issue, right?
Only haters could deny that ‘love’ right?
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