Normally, I wouldn't have a problem with the idea of leaving the issue of homosexual "marriage" to the church as opposed to Congress. However, such an argument is a red herring, because that's not an option. Unless Congress does something, the judiciary is already trying to decide it for everyone. They have been since at least 2003 when the Supreme Court said sodomy was fine and dandy. They continue as they force it on the people and legislature of Mass. and overturn the constitutions of places like Georgia.
So no, the choice isn't Congress or the church: it's Congress or the judiciary. And the judiciary isn't elected. In fact, they aren't even charged with making laws. Uh, in fact, they aren't even supposed to be making laws, as they have been for quite some time.
Actually, I'd go one better and say God should "settle the contentious issue." Oh, he already did. He made it abundantly and repetitively clear in his Word that homosexuality was wrong and that his design for human sexuality is one man and one woman for life.
But what God said just isn't good enough for Americans anymore. We're a whole lot smarter than He ever was. After all, He just created us and everything in the universe--including the universe itself.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Congress Should Not Decide 'Gay' Marriage, Groups Say
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"Uh, in fact, they aren't even supposed to be making laws, as they have been for quite some time."
Uh, the thing pin-heads like you always seem to forget is that, in the eyes of the judiciary, marriage is a LEGAL term, defining the LEGAL rights, responsibilities and status of citizens entered into the LEGAL contract of marriage.
The LEGAL import of being entered into the CONTRACT of marriage is about property inheritance, insurance, taxation, medical and health rights, and a host of other LEGAL issues.
How (an individual's interpretation of) "God" may or may not define marriage has absolutely nothing to with it.
And in our democracy, a contractual LEGAL status open to one must be available to EVERYONE.
These judges are not making law, they're applying the existing law appropriately under the democratic principles of the Constitution.
Which is why the only recourse for those who wish to strip these civil rights from a group whose private sexual practices are anathema to them and their "God" is to try to pass a Constitutional Amendment.
At least TRY to understand the issue please...
You're right that marriage is also a LEGAL issue. However, it is STILL not the responsibility of the judiciary to make laws--their job is to adjudicate issues relating to those laws. Making laws is the job of congress and state legislatures.
How God defines marriage actually has pretty much everything to do with it. He instituted marriage at the beginning, when he created the first man and the first woman.
With regards to a "contractual LEGAL status...available to EVERYONE," marriage is open to everyone. Every man and every woman may marry one man or woman of the opposite sex if they are of legal age and not closely related. No one is being denied any rights. Everyone has the right to get married--even homosexuals. But they have to abide by the same rules as the rest of us, mainly that we marry someone of the opposite sex.
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