Posted on 06/27/2013 5:14:21 PM PDT by markomalley
So do I. Instead of a “wedding”, you could have a “Celebration of Holy Matrimony”. That distinction could give the cake bakers a way around the onslaught being unleashed on them.
I suppose that priests and ministers would have to forgo signing the legal paperwork. A “Certificate of Union in Holy Matrimony” would be a separate document, like a baptismal certificate, issued by the church. We need to find more succinct terminology for all this, but I guess that is where it will have to go.
That is already what happens (except the State license is signed as well). A certificate is given and the spouses' records in their respective baptismal registries are annotated with the date they received the sacrament.
But please bear in mind what I said in post #15: the sodomites will start whining that it's not fair that they can't have ___(whatever term you come up with____. Think I'm kidding? See this thread with an op/ed published by a sodomite shortly after the NY law was changed a couple of years ago.
What about calling it hetero-marriage (vs homo-marriage)? As in, My hetero-marriage is a Sacrament of Holy Matrimony.
I agree with all of that, but I suggest that the cake bakers and the florists go ahead and accept all the gay wedding business...”the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous” after all......
I second that but, the words husband and wife are also being redefined.
Joe + Joe = husband and husband
There are tax advantages, too, since our overlords have decided that legally married people should be punished financially.
I agree with you except that I think it is much more malicious than whining. They are going to try to legislate religious doctrine. We can only hope the SCOTUS draws the line there.
Remember, the National Cathedral is NOT Catholic, it's Episcopal, and those folks went crazy years ago.
I remembered that the church is Epicopalian. Actually I’m not Catholic either, still curious as to how far they will go to spit in God’s face.
What baffles me is the argument. 87 congress members and a president are racist because sodomizers have rights ?
The Chief Justice can set the rule of the the arguments of merit to the case before the court. It’s done every day it’s known as “the judge won’t allow”. Because the administration now favors “gay marriage” I wouldn’t expect what could be called a healthy defence from them. Sodomy wasn’t the issue . The issue was protecting the integrity and intention of a basic unit of society through a mechanisim known as marriage to encourage familys.
What should we expect from a political party which itself has gone through a marriage with one world socialist radicals known to many as communists who can’t even use the word God. They’ve hyphenated into Demo-Coms.
No just because a radical bunch have taken over and edicts changes in customs and values to conform to their idology should we set back and accept it. Time to stand up and be counted.
This is a good idea. We Christians need to talk about Christian marriage. And those bakers and florists who are now getting sued for not providing for “gay weddings” need to make clear they only provide services for “Holy Matrimonies.”
“Holy Matrimony suggests that other Marriages are Un-Holy and makes those people fell bad. Thus the Catholic Church is Unconstitutional”. - Injustice Anthony Kennedy, some time in the next few years.
Catholic ping!
Hmmmm...What would we use to replace the verb, “to marry?”
(Also thinking about all the forms we have to fill out asking if we are single, married, etc...)
“You must not give that which is holy to dogs”
-Matthew 7:6
Ever hear of the "marriage penalty?"
You get taxed less and receive more government largess if you are NOT married.
Why do you think there are so many "single mothers?" Single-motherhood is now right up there with sainthood.
Then they will start using that term for themselves. There’s no limit to the ways the language can be enslaved and distorted.
Single-motherhood is a separate issue.
Couples get benefits by being married, from visitation and medical authority in hospitals to inheritance to sharing insurance to preferential insurance rates. There’s a reason that gay couples want to marry rather than enter into separate individual contacts to get those bennies.
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