No need to apologize. My original post was meant to be a quick, flippant comment tossed out into the internet universe. A poorly written attempt at being clever.
I quickly found, however, that I had opened a can of worms on myself.
And yes, I agree that we need a little more authority on whom is qualified to be ordained as a religious officiant in a marital ceremony. For example, Bill Clinton presided over the ceremony, rights, and marital union of Huma and Anthony Weiner. Wow.
Marriage is a sacred event that is both spiritual and legal... And a lot older than both my State government and our Supreme Court. In my opinion, our Government’s involvement has not necessarily made it a better, nor stronger institution, but it’s also pretty low on my list of things I want to spend time changing.
Oh, and I don’t think that homosexuals should get married. All of this is a fad - a proven unpopular fad - and our governments are unwise to meddle with it.
<How do you do that nice italic font to quote my previous post?
Enter the html tags:
< i> before the text that you want in italics.
< /i> after the text that want in italics.
Here's my favorite HTML code cheat sheet website:
http://www.web-source.net/html_codes_chart.htm#.UVXgsTc0NnR