What’s one privilege that murderers, rapists, pedophiles and corrupt bankers have that gays don’t have? That’s right, the right to get married. We say to the worst of society you may partake of this sacred institution but those who love someone of the same sex, you can’t. Is that the message we want to be sending to our children, the world?
Marriage is one part religious and one part socio-political. When people in Washington D.C.
The socio-political part of gay marriage is that by outlawing it we are preventing same sex couples from having over 100 privileges that heterosexual couples enjoy. One should right is the ability to be around and or be their spouse’s medical attendant. By law your next of kin is the person who will make the decision, god-forbid if you are in a medical state where you are unconscious or medically unable to make medical decisions yourself. How would you feel if the person you loved the most was dying and you didn’t have a say in what their treatment should be or even be in the same room for that matter? It is absolutely cruel what we are doing to same sex couples. If religious leaders will not marry a same-sex couple that is fine, that is their right as Americans. But the State is not bound by any religion.
Our Constitution and laws stress the point of equality and fairness. How is it fair that the person who kills someone’s child gets to enjoy the sanctity of marriage but a gay couple who has broken no law is not allowed to? Homosexuality is not a crime in this country the last time I checked. Let’s separate the religious component form the socio-political component to see that by not allowing gays to marry we are discriminating against a group of people who have broken no law. “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and all women are created equal.” There’s no caveat there America
"Yes the Bible says homosexuality is wrong but that is a whole different story. In this country of ours we are governed by the Constitution and State Laws, not the Bible."
ReplyDeleteTo make this statement, one must first determine by what authority the nation's founders and leaders wrote that Constitution and State Laws. Brief study of the founders makes clear that they intended to create a nation of laws with the Bible as the basis of those laws. Roughly half of the states' marriage laws perfectly mirror Leviticus 18 (with the other half being modified during the Eugenics movement to include prohibitions on marriage between first cousins). Most other state laws also have their root in the Bible, most often taking from Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Why does bad credit disappear from your report after 7 years? Why do most private debts have a statute of limitations?
Before we throw out the Bible as our source of law, we must also ask, if not the Bible, then by what authority do we claim the moral authority to make any laws governing conduct at all? Taking the slippery slope approach away from God and the Bible as the root of our laws, we must recognize that doing so necessarily dictates that the only reason we can object to any crime at all - rape, incest, polygamy, and even murder - is because we can gather a bigger number of guys with bigger guns.
Is that really how we are to govern? The ability to produce bigger body counts?