The Supreme Court - About to Play God Again?
Posted on 03/26/2013 1:25:49 PM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Marriage is now a government benefit distribution scheme. Conservative Christians asked for it to be so, desiring tax breaks, insurance discounts, and other government rewards for something they were already committed to doing for religious reasons. Marriage was sold off to government decades ago - cheap.
Unfortunately, it was only a matter of time before every grifter in town wanted in on the scam. The word "marriage" (much like the word "gay", itself) is now destined for destruction. The concept, however, should survive relatively unscathed.
Marriage “as we know it” is an unstable modern invention, not even fifty years old.
“Traditional marriage” is now illegal in all 50 states. Contracts for fidelity and permanence have been ruled contrary to public policy in many courts. The marriage “contract” is the ONLY contract that is terminable at will by either party over the objections of the other party without payment of liquidated damages.
Marriage “as we know it” is finished. The fact that the state now will insist that two men or two women can be called “married” (to each other) is proof.
Last year, the New Mexico Court of Appeals upheld a ruling by the state’s Human Rights Commission that a Christian wedding photographer was guilty of “discrimination” on the basis of sexual orientation because she refused to photograph a lesbian “commitment ceremony.”
And just this month, a California Christian college was sued by a transgender student who was expelled after school officials discovered that he/she lied on his/her admissions application, claiming to be female.
Is there any doubt that, at some point, some church will be sued, under some legal pretext, for refusing to marry a gay couple?
**The End is Near For Marriage As We Know It**
I don’t think so. Are you on your knees praying? Where is your faith?
Nope. The Supreme Court struck down laws against interracial marriage in 1967, but no church that objects to such marriages has ever been forced to perform one.
To be happy in a “Bi-Sexual Marriage” wouldn’t there have to be more than two parties?
And I'm not talking about trannies. I'm talking about contraceptors.
If sex is more desirable when it's sterile, homosexuals are absolutely into the program. Marriage--- why not? Straights have had gay marriage for 90 years (I'm dating it from Sanger.) Why not let the gays in, too?
re: “Nope. The Supreme Court struck down laws against interracial marriage in 1967, but no church that objects to such marriages has ever been forced to perform one.”
That may or may not be true, but that was when America was still America. We have not been “America” as founded for the last 4 and a half years. Obamacare legislation has already created lawsuits against private individuals and religious organizations for refusing to pay for employees abortions/contraception in their medical insurance.
If the Supreme Court “finds” the right to same-sex marriage it will, of course, become part of anti-discrimination laws. I cannot imagine that churches, ministers, chaplains, etc. will be permitted to refuse to perform such marriages for very long. Churches who rent their facilities for weddings will not be allowed to refuse to rent to same-sex couples for very long. In fact, every person who offers a public service having to do with weddings - photographers, halls, musicians, caterers - they will have to also perform their services for same-sex weddings or lose their right to work in a public capacity.
Canada and the UK have already prosecuted ministers and individuals for speaking against same-sex marriage under “hate crime” legislation. We have hate crime legislation too, not the same as Canada’s but it is there and with the current climate of “tolerance” do you really think we are far behind in having the same kind of legislation?
You are correct that ministers and churches have traditionally not been prosecuted (because it’s against the Constitution), but if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the right to same-sex marriage, it will be a further isolation of all those who refuse to play along.
Churches, ministers, Christian schools, Christian hospitals, Christian adoption agencies, etc., will be permitted to exercise their “discrimination” against “loving gay couples” within the confines of their property, but not one inch further - but how long will that be permitted with the way the country is going?
As I said, you may be correct, but for how long?
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