Posted on 06/27/2015 12:09:54 PM PDT by EveningStar
Mississippi is considering pulling the plug on issuing marriage licenses altogether after the Supreme Court struck down bans on gay marriage Friday morning.
As the state's governor and lieutenant governor condemned the court's decision, state House Judiciary Chairman Andy Gipson began studying ways to prevent gay marriage in Mississippi. Governor Phil Bryant said he would do all he can "to protect and defend the religious freedoms of Mississippi." To Bryant's point of doing "all" the state could do, Gipson, who is a Baptist minister, suggested removing marriage licenses entirely.
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Yes, it does.
And, it also has its rewards, which the left is celebrating today.
Do it. And further declare only those new marriages sanctioned by entities other than Mississippi would be recognized in the future. Then add that entities under consideration for the job included countries that will not allow gay marriages (if those countries would like to have the job), the Vatican, even corporations, etc... Sort of like farming out prison contracts to the private sector.
The details are secondary at this point. The point is that unless you’ve got a path to defeat federal gay marriage, it makes sense to consider workarounds at the state level, which Mississippi is doing.
What is your path to defeat federal gay marriage?
It is a good idea.
No, the SC did that!
LOL
Mississippi isn’t doing anything. Why are you incapable of discussing this issue, and merely keep repeating yourself?
I've been saying that for a long time.
Brilliant.
Marriage was always about a Man, and Woman (or vice-versa!) And the Church or Synagogue.
Until government decided it wanted “in.”
BURN BABY BURN
You’re the one who’s literally repeating yourself. I’m just aping your style.
Thanks for playing and have a nice Saturday.
This is so disheartening. We have just been dealt two body blows in the past week, three if you include the week before, and so many good conservatives here want to argue how many devils can dance on the head of a marriage pin. Who cares?
We need to WORK TOGETHER and quit the stupid bickering. The left has exploited our natural tendency to think independently, and o the point that that’s all we can do: think. No planning, no doing, and good Lord, no working together!
Are we really that easy to manipulate and subdue? (Don’t answer, it’s rhetorical.)
"They" may try to force churches to marry so-called "gays", but I believe they will have to jail several thousand Southern Baptist, Pentacostal, and independent evangelical non-denominational churches if they do.
I would include Catholic priests but I suppose they would have to go along with whatever the Vatican would tell them to do. And sad to say, I'm not fully convinced that Pope Frances would strenuously object to the US courts' orders as his predecessors probably would have.
People were getting married long before states got into the act.
No, I have tried to engage you about this Mississippi thing and show you how silly it is, and impossible, but you refuse, and just keep repeating that you like it, but without even understanding that it is meaningless.
How long before applications for government employment or military service question one’s religious affiliation? You’re Southern Baptist? Presto, no government job or military service, since they’re all homophobes.
See where this is headed?
Yes they have, and their marriages were either legal, or not legal.
And the states have existed since the beginning of our nation, and in the states, you either had a marriage that was legal, or not legal.
Good! As far as I know history, there weren’t marriage licenses when this country was founded; there weren’t employer mandated spousal benefits; there wasn’t a monetary incentive to get married. That is what drove homosexuals to demand marriage, the monetary and medical benefits to spouses.
You do pay more because you are married, plus there’s added legal liability if a divorce happens. You pay a higher rate for income brackets if you are married.
It’s also about child custody and getting preferential status from some adoption agencies too.
As someone who comes from a church where the early believers gloried in the fact that they were hated for following Jesus, and many were massacred, I don’t feel that an extensive set of documents is such a high price to pay. I really don’t. Just my view.
You may make that policy for your church, but I guarantee there will be churches which won't have that requirement who will be more than willing to marry both heterosexual and gay couples. What have you accomplished?
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