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To: conservative in nyc

No government entity should have been ever granted the right to join people in marriage (matrimony), that's a right that belongs to the Church. Civil magistrates should only be able to preside over civil unions (contracts).

The only way to stop same sex marriages, is to get the government out of the marriage business.


271 posted on 10/25/2006 4:27:11 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
No government entity should have been ever granted the right to join people in marriage (matrimony), that's a right that belongs to the Church. Civil magistrates should only be able to preside over civil unions (contracts).

Did you even read this nonsense before postng it?

Marriage is a civil union (contract). That why this New Jersey decision is so preposterous. It's a clintonian word game.

If marriage is purely an ecclesiastical "thing" without any civil consequence, gays already have that.

So, why you're really saying is that we should have civil contracts of any kind or shape or composition that "adults" (I use the term loosely) decide. All of these contracts would be subject to the coercive power of the state.

You're not for limiting government power. You want to increase it exponentially. You're even loonier and farther left than the chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

277 posted on 10/25/2006 4:35:27 PM PDT by JCEccles
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To: Luis Gonzalez
No government entity should have been ever granted the right to join people in marriage (matrimony), that's a right that belongs to the Church. Civil magistrates should only be able to preside over civil unions (contracts).

Did you even read this nonsense before postng it?

Marriage is a civil union (contract). That why this New Jersey decision is so preposterous. It's a clintonian word game.

If marriage is purely an ecclesiastical "thing" without any civil consequence, gays already have that.

So, what you're really saying is that we should have civil contracts of any kind or shape or composition that "adults" (I use the term loosely) decide. All of these contracts would be subject to the coercive power of the state.

You're not for limiting government power. You want to increase it exponentially. You're even loonier and farther left than the chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

278 posted on 10/25/2006 4:36:14 PM PDT by JCEccles
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