The whole structure of human society is built on the foundation of male/female marriage.
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Exactly. And that is why it is imperative for our country to promote and protect marriages from a socially productive POV.
It sickens me to see so many liberal FReepers who applaud queer marriages, support overturning DOMA, and argue the government should stay out of the marriage business.
They want the government out of marriage? Well, guess what? They are getting their wish as LBJ’s Great Sociey program has replaced the father with a welfare check and has attacked the social values of marriage to such an extent that wide-spread welfare - and not healthy productive familes - are now the norm.
Actually, I’m really comfortable with the state staying out of marriage altogether. Marriage existed long before there was anything resembling a modern state. There were no licenses to sign for Abram. Marriage was created by God. If you think about it, it’s pretty weird for the state to be involved at all.
I think there’s a pretty good argument that marriage is between the couple and God. Each Church can have their own marriage contract as a condition of marrying. Then the state would just enforce that like any other contract, instead of dictating the rules of marriage.
Athiests can do whatever athiests do.
Homosexuals can pretend they are married and find an Episcopal or ECLA priest to “marry” them. Won’t make any difference on Judgement Day.
Of course, Homosexuals will be furious if this happens because getting official approval of what they do and then being able to force it on the rest of us through the power of the State is the main point of the whole homosexual marriage hyperventilation.