As most of you have seen on the news lately, gay marriage and gay rights have been one of the hot topics of debate. The straights of course have their view which is either stop the gay movement and civil unions or just outright ostricizing their “decadent” lifestyle. The gays say that the religions should go against thousands of years of morality and principles and marry them on the altar shoulder to shoulder with straight couples. Well, I have been reading up on the Constitution and, in particular, that part about separation of church and state. Since marriage was considered a holy sacrament long before our nation was even thought of, it should have NEVER been thrust into the legal spectrum in the first place. All marriages in the LEGAL realm should be entered into the files of civil unions. The joining of two souls in marriage should be left solely for the churches to decide whom is deserving of such a ceremony. You then give equal LEGAL rights and interpretations to all civil unions while still protecting the rights of gays and heterosexuals. Off-the-wall situations such as polygamy, underage, and-perish the thought- bestiality unions should continue to be illegal because such patterns of thought are all far too extreme and frankly disgusting to ever merit serious legal consideration. So, let’s recap this “radical solution”.
Step 1.
We must recognize that marriage was a devoutly holy soul-joining sacrament that should be protected under the separation of church and state provisions in the Constitution.
Step 2.
With marriage completely eliminated from the legal books, now all consenting couples gay and straight are considered civil unions and given equal rights and protections in the legal system.
Step 3.
With marriage solely in control of churches, the religious community is now free to use their morals to decide which couples it recognizes as marriage-eligible.
Step 4.
Common sense needs to win over political correctness in respect to bestiality, polygamy, and underage permitting radical sects becoming legally recognized.
Other than a few completely sick, twisted, perverted monsters, absolutely everyone wins with this. Gays get equal protection, marriage is preserved, perverts are still on the wanted list, and the Constitution is not violated along the way.
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The problem with the term ‘marriage’ and the church is that, when it comes down to it, faith is stopping people from using their common sense and caring for each other. To paraphrase Glen Wool, most faiths are about peace and caring for the fellow man, up until the part where it teaches you how to kill gay people. Agreed that the state should stay out such a matter, but then the church, being holier-than-thou, wouldn’t think twice about keeping marriage between two straight people, which is stupid considering how everyone is created equal and should have equal rights.
LoudMimeDave on June 14th, 2009 at 11:31 am | Link
I agree completely with the thoughts on fairness in marriage through a legal “civil union” for all couples, gay and straight. I do not agree with LoudMimeDave. Religion should uphold any and all sacraments they believe in, including their stance on gay marriage. Every religion (possible excluding Catholocism, has “sects” that gladly perform and recognize gay marriage. And religion is purely a choice, a choice which every individual in this country has the right to make freely for him or her self. And just so you know, if a state or the federal government make gay marriage “legal”, that does not require any religion to perform or recognize that marriage.
James on June 15th, 2009 at 8:03 pm | Link
Fair.
LoudMimeDave on June 16th, 2009 at 11:23 am | Link
God’s law is a choice
The Constitution should not be…..
shalandra on June 24th, 2009 at 3:23 pm | Link
Sexual deviation should not be rewarded, in any form, thats my first point. When your “choice” effects my paycheck, I have a right to have a problem with that, and thats at the bottom of the debate.
Everyone wants to cloud it with the “fairness” argument, or some other bleeding heart crap. I do not want to help you create a gay household, perpetuating what I believe is very wrong. Dont get me wrong, what you do in the bedroom is your issue, and your business, not mine, but I REFUSE to be a part of any of it. I think it is that simple for most opponents. Nobody (sane people anyway) wants to kill people for there sexual preferences, but I strongly disagree with anyone trying to perpetuate them. It is -=WRONG=-.
Of course, there may be a whole lot of angry responses, as I know any opposing view to this seems to get attacked and marked as “hate”, to those people I say this, get angry until you fall over dead, it will not change my opinion, and there is no magical pile of words you can post that will change anybodys mind.
SXRXNRR - I know it won’t change your mind. But I just want the reading world here to realize for a moment that there is no way that gay marriage affects your paycheck. You can try to conjure up some multi-step indirect potentiality nonsense, but the truth is it doesn’t affect your money. Secondly, you don’t have to get involved with gay marriage or make it a part of your 36 inches in order for it to be legal.
Your argument is pure fluff and rooted in nothing except the wall you’ve built in your mind that protects you from having to consider a complicated situation.
Sub1ime14 on July 29th, 2009 at 6:50 am | Link
Anyone wanting to marry will pay the piper forever. You are taxed more by the feds, and the Social Security payout is much less. But hey make he government and your church happy. Marry away and pay the rest of your life!
Re: SXRXNRR
Someone else’s marriage doesn’t cost you anything. How about the lazy man at home getting unemployment checks that you pay for? What if he’s straight *gasp*? Do you hate him and a billion other citizens for doing something out of your thought process?
Danielle on November 12th, 2009 at 10:59 pm | Link
as usual people have an incredible talent for missing the point. im not concerned with the money part or anything else related. i just dont want the government in ANY way shape or form to stick their asses into the church which by the way is precisely how the founding fathers felt.
No one wants to force churches to do anything. If churches want to deny people marriage, be it because they’re gay or because they’re not of the same religion or something equally silly, that’s their choice. But seeing as marriage is also a legal status, and many non-religious folks get married, there is no reason that same-sex couples shouldn’t be able to get married, too, by a justice-of-the-peace instead of a minister.
However, I am liking the angle of turning marriage into a purely religious thing and having civil unions be for everyone else. I’m not sure what that would mean for the legal system, and it would take some time for culture to adapt fully, but I don’t see how this is any different than the religions that do “marriages” that can either be legally binding or not, that is, provided that in this scenario “marriage” would be one of those religious ceremonies that doesn’t automatically give you a new legal classification.
David on March 16th, 2010 at 9:42 pm | Link
Marriage is a priviledge and not a right. Lets call “same sex” marriage for what it really is-Homosexual marriage!
It is not natural or normal. What’s next, beastiality marriage?
Stop your heteresexual hate!
Frank on July 28th, 2010 at 8:07 am | Link