Marriage has NOT been redefined.
Such a thing is quite impossible.
It is merely the case that countless individuals - among them several Supreme Court justices - have shown they cannot speak English.
The door is wide open.
Now you continue to believe what is relevant and ignore what Courts say. This has no direct bearing on individual beliefs and should not change our day to day behavior.
If enough folks do this, it will make no difference what the courts say, it really is up to the people. Morality and Religious beliefs are personal and can not be changed by the courts.
Marriage Has Been Redefined: Now What?
I still see it as I always have — one man, one woman.
This is not a SPST switch on or off, it will have many positions, they are not done IMHO as to who and what or how many will be in a “Marriage”....
Now what? Now we’ve become the cities of the plain.
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I just find it interesting that when the court a few years ago said that the second amendment clearly gives the people the right to bear arms , the liberals still put in gun restrictions and called for banning all handguns . But when the libs get what they want , then our submission becomes a sacred duty. The question all of a sudden becomes settled
Homomania will advance on many fronts.
Other anti-family and anti-religions-freedom initiatives - that would have seemed far-fetched a few years ago - will now go into high gear.
One such will be to re-define "responsible parenting" so as to include affirmative action on the part of all parents to promote the gay lifestyle to their children from the earliest possible age, and to identify parents who do not cooperate with this course of action - either in the home or in the schools - as "irresponsible parents" and to make it possible for their children to be taken from them.
The existing educational and child-welfare systems will be used to accomplish this with only small changes in their charters and mission statements.
I would expect that test cases have already been identified by advocates for this strategy.
The word “marriage” has been redefined.
The institution of marriage has not.
Holy Matrimony does not include same sex unions and the Government can’t call it “Holy Matrimony”.
It is hard to keep those wedding vows, to forsake all others sand resin with a spouse, in sickness and in health, until death do us part. Harder when there is no longer much shame in unfaithfulness and divorce.
Conservatives should have gone on the offensive and made legislation to label Gay Marriage as “Gayrriage.” After all, two butt plumbers sharing a life together is a different type of relationship than the traditional man-woman gig.
Offering a SEPARATE definition would have enabled conservatives to maintain control over the definition that “Marriage” is ONLY BETWEEN 1 man & 1 woman.
Let them have their cute wedding ceremonies and wedding rings and hospital visitation rights and nothing more.
I think a primary reason they want “marriage” recognition is for spousal health care benefits, for which there will be a huge cost to society. It’s all about freebies.
I believe it is naive to think we can legislate away gayness. It’s not going away.
At this point I personally don’t care what the butt plumbers do in the privacy of their own homes even though I find it disgusting.
I get to define “no”.
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The State says it’s ok. Churches have the right to refuse the service.
if the priest has no choice and must perform the ceremony or else he’ll be arrested for violating their Rights...
wouldn’t the ‘bride’ also be arrested if she didn’t allow the groom his ‘Right’ to marriage?
Next up... Mandatory gay marriage.
Actually, the Constitution has been Redefined. The Gay Marriage fiasco is a diversion.
The United States of America has become the States United of America. The Communists, Democrats, Liberals, Obama and the SCOTUS pulled off what the Soviet Union couldn’t in its Prime.
All Power now originates from the City of Tyrants, Washington D.C.
What next? Now we fight to keep religious freedom for all.
Do you want to know what scares me? Our Jewish and Christian practices will be lumped in with Sharia law. No one sane wishes Sharia law to be the law of our land, but our practices will be seen in exactly the same light as their sadistic rulings. We need some very VERY smart lawyers on our side fighting for the right to worship and practice as we do.
We all have to this day enjoyed full religious practices and worked these out with our country’s laws. We have rendered to Caesar. But will we remain free to do so? Will there be laws against some of our holy practices soon?
I don’t pretend to know what things would first appear on the endangered list for Christians. I worry about being free to circumcise our sons for Jews. What if laws are passed against it? We Jews do not need to worry about gays buying our wedding cakes; there is no prohibition against making cakes for an anonymous public. But there are so many ways our practicing Our religion can be impeded. Yeah, it’s all been tried before. And never say “it can’t happen here.” It happens everywhere we go.
Also, the "...has been..." phrase hints at a finality. I hardly believe that's the case. There will no-doubt be further mislabeling. What's next? Polygamy? Bestiality? Necrophilia? Pedophilia? If one perversion, homosexuality, is now so acceptable on what grounds could anyone exclude these others? Seems they are all going to be fair game for the perverts to push as main-stream.