Posted on 09/08/2012 9:03:55 AM PDT by Why So Serious
Here is a better way to look at this ... the government should not be in the marriage business, and marriage is not a political issue. Gay people, for the most part, express a desire to get married for the benefits that are extended to married couple [rights like Social Security benefits, child care tax credits, Family and Medical Leave to take care of loved ones, and COBRA healthcare for spouses and children]. Government should allow people to engage in civil unions [this includes men and women], only. Marriage should be left to the churches. Then, any one can have a civil union [man/lady, lady/lady, man/man, mom/son, dad/daughter, brother/sister, person/multiple people] which extends to that civil union the governmental rights that married couple now enjoy which include the marriage tax credit, right to pass assets without taxation upon death, the right to make life ending decisions [pulling the plug]. The whole issue dies in a blink. This should not have to be a political thing. Moving the line in the sand never works ... better just to erase it. I believe that my wife and I are married in GOD's eyes and believe that we have a civil union in the eyes of government. It should not be anything different then a partnership, LLC, or LP.
I agree. Unfortunatly, this is too simple. What was it that Clint Eastwood said...conservatives by the very nature of the word don’t go around beating drums like the liberals... I really managled this, but you get the picture.
You and your son are both good at critical thinking. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
Nicely played. I think it's not even that complicated. It's more about forcing everyone else -and particularly Conservatives- to use the term 'marriage'.
I'm in the rag biz, so do business with lots of gay guys. Politics comes up from time to time. All I know would be voting Dem, but none care about this marriage nonsense.
What a bunch of liberal crap. The result of your fantasy will result in more out of wedlock children, the number source of poverty in America.
Gay marriage was banned in Oregon by a people's vote. The liberal legislature then pushed through civil unions, granting gays ALL the benefits of a real marriage. The gays in Oregon are still working on getting the gay marriage ban overturned. They want acceptance of their perversion.
As long as the marriage contract has implications on tax laws, inheritance laws, property rights, child support, etc, then government does have a place to make sure the contractual terms are clearly defined and consistent. The Constitution authorizes Congress to set the standards of 'weights and measures'. According to the Federalist papers, legal definitions are considered a measure that is within the government's jurisdiction to define. If legal definitions don't mean anything or are inconsistent, then contracts and laws aren't enforceable.
If you want the government out of the marriage business, simply having private contracts between individuals, then all the laws and recognized contracts that apply to marriage first must be addressed.
Government is interested in traditional marriage because, a natural outcome of man/woman marriage is the result of children, new citizens to replace the older citizens who are retiring or less able to do certain work (in the case of the military, work for national defense). This goes back many millenia- in ancient Roman empire days, the consul and Senate would regularly issue edicts for landed and non landed citizens to increase their number— have more children. This was especially true as the expansion of Rome required citizen soldiers. What has changed this somewhat is the advent of technology and the political annoyance of a group that insists that religions say their relationship is the same. It isn’t and can never be. Men and women are different—biologically and countless other ways.
The STATE, in this case, the feds, but also the states, have been involved in biology— and that is a major part of the problem. Carried to further extreme, since it seems homosexuals are demanding that churches/religions acknowledge they are the SAME as man/women in marriage, would it not then devolve that a condition of homosexual marriage would be the requirement that one of the party produce a child (from a sperm donor for L’s, and artificial womb for male homosexuals). Such is the “advancement” of the biotechnology that would enable this.
Against this backdrop and, furthering the homosexual agenda against the traditional family structure, you have planned parenthood pushing the abortion industry. Children are not to be wanted in this “overpopulated” world.
From a biblical point of view, and any number of other “biologically sound” points of view, the true marriage of a man and a woman provides stability- psychological, societal, and... biological. To suggest otherwise can be countered with vast historical precedent.
You want to destroy “marriage” as well, making government civil unions (which would merely replace marriage) the norm, and allowing “marriage” to fade into obscurity as it becomes a little religious ceremony for some, in their individual churches, something for personal consumption only, but not applicable to society at large.
You legalize homosexual marriage and polygamy either way in your proposal.
Libertarians are leftists who are attacking our culture and society, and morality using a different name.
Really? I have been married for 22 years. I started dating my wife in 1978 at the age of 16, we got married in 1990 at the age of 28 and today we are 50. Do you really believe that the government and its marriage thing had something to do with it. You sound like Barack Obama .. Julie and I did not create this marriage ... government created it!!! And if government allowed civil unions some how my wife and my marriage will become something other than what it is now. If you think that, I feel sorry for your spouse. I guess you love your spouse because government marriage mandates it.
I have been saying that since I was old enough to know what it meant.
I had a legal, civil contract (marriage license) with my husband, and we were also ceremonially married-by a priest of our religion (Catholic). There is no reason one should not be binding without the other-they are two completely different things.
A civil, legal contract is just that-and a marriage is a religious matter between a clergyman who performs the ceremony and the two people who choose to bond before God. If the U.S. military had not required the civil license to make me “officially” his wife, my husband and I would have been quite happy to skip that and just go straight to our priest-we would have been just as married, as far as we were concerned.
Anyone can enter into a legal/civil contract, but the specifications of the marriage bond are determined by the religion of one’s choice-in Christian and Jewish doctrine, one man and one woman, not a village.
Let each state decide if they want to have it that way. Despite well-meaning “concern”, any time a government sticks their hands into personal, non-business relationships, it ends up badly, just like this same sex “marriage” nonsense...
I agree with you 100%, and you expressed the essence of this issue perfectly: “
“Libertarians are leftists who are attacking our culture and society, and morality using a different name.”
And that is why I loathe Libertarians more than the Dems - at least the Dems stay on their own side of the room and don’t pretend to be part of our movement.
The vast majority of gays don’t want to get married, they want to be with as many partners as possible....Marriage to them is all about “normalizing” their behavior.
No no and no.
It is God Almighty who is the authority on marriage, not the state.
No I don’t paint with a broad brush, libertarinas are leftists that like conservative economics.
Libs attack our culture with the same goal as any other leftist, to destroy it.
You don’t like homosexuals adopting? Well libertarians do.
Which set of laws do you want governing marriage and divorce, Islam’s, Scientology, Hare Krishnas, or government?
Do you want the ‘Children of God’, or FLDS making their own laws on marriage?
I think it’s just about the creeping encroachment of liberal power. Watch what they attack, it’s the very things that we hold dear and binds us together as Americans.
It’s about tearing down America so the squirmies can take it over.
Everything from smoking, to the sanctity of life is on their agenda, and unless we stand firm, America will become Pottersville and continue its fall into 3rd worldism in a short time.
Will taxpayers be required to pay for benefits to those in civil unions?
They are free to get a civil union contract and then have a private marriage ceremony that isn't a legal issue. I have several gay friends who did this. Private "Marriage" ceremonies at a Unitarian church then a separate legal contract like a civil union. It isn't much different in a straight couple getting a marriage license then going to their church for a private ceremony. The only difference with the first example is the two don't legally relate.
Umm..yes, they CAN and DO procreate all the time, via surrogates - read a magazine occasionally, because this is not a secret.
Also, once you normalize homosexuality, there is no way to keep them from adopting, having flagrant dykes and transvestites in your school rooms, etc.
I don’t even know how your post was relevant to mine.
Homosexuals want marriage as a sign of society’s approval for their behavior. In most places, they can already get all the rest - but they want “marriage” so they can be “normal”.
Exactly. This is not about “rights” as much as it is about getting into peoples heads and making them believe it is normal and acceptable.
I’ve always had the feeling that they, themselves, know that it isn’t “normal” in any sense, and their militant attitude is a kind of cognitive dissonance. They’re trying to convince themselves as much as others.
The homosexualists look at the state’s involvement in the institution and see a way to punish those who won’t agree with them about their lifestyle. The statists look at the state’s involvement and see a way to control the culture by weakening it so more are dependant upon the state.
With the state involved in the modern era, many have been conditioned to think marriage is simply a state contract with benefits and strictures denoted by pieces of paper that can be broken and resumed between whatever parties the state allows. How does the state determine what it will allow? In the modern era, judges, pols or the majority decide. And that’s it. It was always a danger. Pope Leo XIII warned about it 130 years ago.
Freegards
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