Posted on 06/26/2019 7:48:25 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Most everyone in America was and is in favor of marriage equality. Most everyone was and is in favor of marriage equality because most everyone wants the law to treat all marriages equally.
The debate in the United States in the decade and a half before Obergefell v. Hodges wasn’t about equality. It was about marriage. We disagreed about what marriage is.
Of course, “marriage equality” was a great slogan. It fit on a bumper sticker. You could make a red equal sign your Facebook profile picture. It was a wonderful piece of advertising.
And yet it’s completely vacuous. It doesn’t say a thing about what marriage is. Only if you know what marriage is can you then decide whether any given marriage policy violates marriage equality.
Before you can get to considerations of equal protection of the law, you have to know what it is the law is trying to protect equally.
Sloganeering aside, appeals to “marriage equality” betray sloppy reasoning.
Every law makes distinctions. Equality before the law protects citizens from arbitrary distinctions, from laws that treat them differently for no good reason.
To know whether a law makes the right distinctions, whether the lines it draws are justified, one has to know the public purpose of the law and the nature of the good it advances or protects.
After all, even those who want to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples will draw lines defining what sorts of relationships are a marriage and what sorts are not.
If we are going to draw lines based on principle, if we are going to draw lines reflecting the truth, we have to know what sort of relationship marriage is.
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PING!
And once one has made the distinction that there is no distinction to what can and cannot encompass "marriage", all things are possible.
Man marrying Man, Woman marrying Woman. Men marrying children. Women marrying trees. It can go anywhere. And if there is one thing that is 100% true...if something is possible in the brain of a man, it is inevitable.
It sure is a lousy slogan, but they won.
You want an even worse one?
The “Equality Act” pending before Congress.
It should actually be called the “Making Christianity Illegal Act.”
Marriage Equality is a canard.
Govt doesn’t belong in the business of marriage. Hell, it literally turned marriage into crap
Akin to Rule 34. It’s unfortunate, but true.
Man who divorced tree found by court to owe $16 billion in child support. Demands for paternity tests met with claims of dendrophobia.
They had equality; they did not want it:
They had the same right to marry a person of the opposite sex, of an age of consent, and of not too close a blood relation.
They do not want objective equality of opportunity; they want subjective equality of outcome: to be with “the one you love.”
It is not equal rights; it is special privileges.
Only in one state did gay marriage ever pass via votes
One
Everywhere else it lost
At a carnival tonight, I saw grandparents with their little 7-ish granddaughter.
The little girl was sporting a pink shirt with EQUALITY in rainbow glitter.
Evil.
This is like discussing whether humans should fly in planes.
Gay marriage is here to stay.
1. It is not the same: This issue has inherent moral and spiritual components that threaten society, family, and children. (A flight on a plane does not directly endanger the mind and soul of a vulnerable and impressionable child.)
2. It is not here to stay: It is inherently unnatural and unstable; it may only end with the ending of this nation, but it will not endure forever. (Was the debauchery of Rome there to stay in perpetuity, or did it rather hasten Rome’s - and its own - end?)
A bit too late to make that argument. Gay marriage is entrenched into law. Can’t undo it.
But WE'RE not!
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Leviticus niv
18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them;
they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it.
Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
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2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight.
They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
Really?
Come on down to the slave auction this Saturday. I hear there are some good ones up for bids.
That was the point of the whole homo marriage movement: to erase the boundaries of normalcy and dissolve the morality that has defined us as a people.
“The little girl was sporting a pink shirt with EQUALITY in rainbow glitter. Evil.”
How many Americans these days believe evil exists? Believe in God? Believe in (let alone understand) natural law? How about cause and effect?
The progressives since the 1910’s have gradually, successfully perverted America - morally, socially, sexually and financially. Pubic school teachers were/are their greatest resource, along with lawyers.
Homosexuality is violence, not marriage. It should be a jailable offense in a decent country. Which America mostly isn’t anymore. God will judge the immoral.
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