Really? And how is winning the WH with a Milquetoast-type candidate who stands for nothing going to protect our freedoms?
I don’t know anybody who isn’t sickened by this decision. WWJD?
Vanity: Random thoughts on July 3, 2015
What has happened to our society when a tiny minority of outspoken folks can mess with our language and redefine words at will? Furthermore, what will happen to the word of law?
1) First, there was the definition of “is”. Remember that? Depends upon what the meaning of is is. A convoluted excuse, if I ever heard one.
2) Even before that, there was the word “gay”, which (over a generation) morphed from a happy word with pleasant, cheerful connotations to one that means homosexual, with all the negatives associated. Gay used to be even used as a name for both girls and boys. (ref. the author Gay Talese and my female cousin who is about 50 yrs. old)
3) According to my Congressman this week, the word ”majority” actually means 10 votes over the majority, or it doesn’t count. He says that there is a little known “rule” in the Senate that allows only ONE VOTE PER YEAR to pass out of the Senate with only 51 votes. Where is that in the Constitution? So, a majority of 100 votes means 60 votes now – always.
4) SCOTUS is confused about the word “State”. According to them State now means “Federal”.
5) SCOTUS also did cartwheels defining the word “tax” in order to support Obama who doesn’t even know what “natural born citizen” means.
6) And now “marriage” no longer is a union/contract between man and woman – despite thousands of years of custom.
Anyone who says this doesn’t matter isn’t foreseeing the ramifications. How can the legislative body of the US (or anywhere) possibly write laws when any vociferous minority group can change the meaning of the words at will? No wonder my Congressman (an attorney) looks stressed.
End of rant.
Freedom includes the freedom to choose sin. Jesus would say to give to Ceasar what is Ceasar’s.
Forcing gays to not sin is not freedom. There is no winning coalition for denying anybody the ability to pursue happiness. It’s sort of what America is about.
You may not like what people do with freedom and how they define happiness. So work to change hearts and minds. Not laws.
The state grants a special legal status to people who have paired up with the intention of making their pairing permanent. They haven’t changed any religious meaning of sacramental marriage.
Tioga is right, the preservation of religious freedom is important now, not how the state defines these legal pairings.