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The Sanctity of Marriage

Since when does the government get to decide on the sanctity of marriage? 

Does the Church need the strong arm of the government to regulate it's practices?

Does the separation of Church and State mean anything to these people?

Have they heard of the Bill of Rights? The Constitution?

Can't individual churches in their own communities decide how they
feel? Why do people in some far off land get to decide what happens in
my church? Maybe the people in my church and my community are not
threatened by same sex marriages. Maybe we are secure enough in our
faith that same sex marriages do not in any way destroy the sacredness
of marriage. Isn't marriage a union between those in the relationship
and their relationship with God?  How does some one else get in the way
of that? I have a problem with those people.

These people have no true relationship with God. Instead they have a
relationship with mental constructs and believe that we should conform
to their reality, no matter how limited that understanding may be.

If you live in a community where you agree with Bush's marriage points
than good for you. I'm happy you're community has come to a census. But
don't make me live where you live when I live somewhere else.

What is up with these hypocritical messages?
Less government but yet more control. It does not add up.

- Jon, LiveReal

 This is the issue I find the most puzzling and in some ways, the saddest. It strikes me as sad, for one thing, that we never seem to learn a lesson so it sticks; many of the same people that gladly took the MLK holiday off and perhaps even discussed with their children what a great man King was and how much he achieved for civil rights are no doubt some of the same people who want to “protect” marriage from those evil homosexuals - just like the white people who wanted to protect their bus seats and lunch counters and water fountains from those evil black people. Even when they say “we support civil unions, just don’t let them marry”, that just sounds like “separate but equal” to me.

 I don’t understand how same-sex marriage is supposed to threaten traditional marriages anyway. I was married, and of the many difficulties that assailed my wife and me, I can honestly say that neither of us ever thought “well, at least our marriage is protected from the union of homosexuals!” The idea that gays should be prevented from marriage to protect the sanctity of straight marriages is a little like saying that no one can have a different religion than yours because their belief threatens your faith in God. If your marriage can be threatened by the wedding of the gay couple down the street, maybe you shouldn’t be married.
 The most amazing thing is that conservatives, traditionally strict interpreters of the constitution (just try suggesting that the 2nd amendment doesn’t apply to them!) would even think of adding an amendment to define the meaning of marriage. Maybe we can put something in there about keeping athletes off steroids while we’re at it.

 Like all progress in the state of human and civil rights, the eventual recognition of same-sex marriage is inevitable. Just as it would now seem neanderthal to question the right of women to vote or blacks to get an education or children to be protected from cruel employment practices, the day will come when we look back on this debate and say “what were we thinking?” The only question is whether that day will come soon enough for those of us now living to take credit for it.

- Baily, CA

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