Why I, Unlike Senator Rubio, Would Not Attend a Gay Wedding, Even For a Friend

That would be fine for a citizen to talk that way, but not a candidate for President. First off, these people are prominent people and get invited to a lot of functions. No doubt they attend many functions by or for people who are not good people in one way or another, and still they (candidate and spouse) grace the event with their presence. It would be rude not to grace a gay friend’s event.

It does not mean you condone gay marriage to attend. It means you are being kind to someone, or doing the socially right thing (if you went to one employee’s event, how can you not go to the other employee’s event?).

There is no way to get nominated for President in 2015 if you refuse to attend a relative or friend’s gay wedding.

People, please don’t forget that everyone sins. There are so many worse sins than loving the wrong gender. Please don’t place hierarchy on sins by putting the personally “yuckiest” on top. Cheating, lying, gossiping, stealing, murdering people are worse. And you’ve attended their events because you can’t always see those sins.

Some people don’t have “boundaries” around their relationships. I worked with a young woman years ago who invited everyone in the office because she thought it’d be rude not to invite everyone, or to invite some but not others. Similarly, she had an open invitation to her entire church congregation.

The wedding and reception were at the church and church hall, respectively. Women from the church did the catering and apparently thats the way that congregation operates. Some of us prefer smaller, more intimate affairs. Different strokes and all that.

As the article correctly states, any “marriage” that takes place after a divorce is not a marriage in the true and traditional sense, anymore that a union between two people of the same gender/sex. Unfortunately for our society divorce and subsequent “remarriage,” pushed by the onslaught of No-Fault Divorce, paved the way for the eventual and further desecration of marriage. I realize that sometimes the marital relationship may seem untenable, but those who do get a divorce and then go on to get “married” to someone else (regardless of their gender) need to take a look in the mirror and realize that they too are part of the problem.

Do you think it would be permissible for a state to prohibit remarriage after divorce?

It would be better if government was not involved in the religious rite of marriage at all. It isn’t reasonable in a pluralistic society. States having their own laws about marriage cannot work in our present system, as was found when miscegenation laws were found to be in conflict.

I don’t like the question as it doesn’t go far enough. Would you go to a gay wedding with a male gorilla as best man and a female rhesus monkey as maid of honor, with a chimpanzee as the ring bearer? Well, would you? Would you? Would you? If not, are you a transspeciesophobe? Bigot! Bigot!

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