Gay marriage?
July 30, 2003
Alan hits the solution to the Gay Marriage issue right on the head: why does the State “even care”:http://www.alanmacey.com/index.php?m=20030730 how the God defines marriage? Isn’t that a *religious* decision?
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July 31st, 2003 at 10:24 am
Not even a particularly well-founded religious decision either. The passages most often cited against homosexuality are not always too clearly about homosexuality (the story of Sodom, for instance, most likely isn’t), and the historical context of those passages is all but ignored. To say nothing of the surrounding passages. There’s a whole lot of Leviticus that people like (the suspiciously beardless) Jerry Falwell conveniently ignore.
But that’s not the issue. If a church wants to cite a misunderstanding of their own texts as reason to condemn something, they unfortunately have that right. Religious institutions are under no obligation to recognize same-sex marriage as a union before god.
But, in front of the law, god shouldn’t be part of the equation. I can’t see how any lawmaker can defend a ban on same-sex civil unions as anything other than the interference of church in state.
July 31st, 2003 at 3:44 pm
Fred hit the nail on the head. Let the churches, synagogues, mosques, and religious groups deny the sanctity of same-sex marriage all they want. The issue at hand is legal, not religious, discrimination which runs contrary to freedom of association and full faith and credit. Any laws blocking same-sex marriage are based on violations of the separation of church and state.
August 1st, 2003 at 8:51 am
Did you see Daily Show last night (7-31-03)? Jon had a hilarious take on it. Something like: “Will they force us to marry gay men?” …. “Cuz if not, I don’t see why anyone cares.”