[Bogey78O]

The states essentially have the right to legislate marriage contracts however they see fit. Marriage is not a natural right but rather a civil institution like granting the power of attorney, guardianship, or incorporating a business.

[tessalu]

I feel like vexed Lot, hurt by the filthy conversation of the Sodomites around him.

2 Peter 2:4": For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

"5": And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

"6": And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

"7": And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

"8": (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

My soul is vexed and hurt by the day to day reading and hearing of the unlawful deeds of the Sodomites, and my government hurts me by pushing homosexuality and gross wickness.

Our nation will no longer endure if we keep this up. God will flee from us if this is the course that we take.

When the flood came, only 8 people were saved. Remember Lot.