Hmm, many opinions but only a few hit the key items.
Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman with the intended purpose of raising a family. That makes it decidedly important to any society that has any interest in its future and it is why every society has laws concerning the marriage contract. The religious side of marriage sanctifies that relationship making God the Lord of the family and seeks God’s blessing to improve its chances for success.
It serves no interest of the state or church to sanction relationships based on perverse sexual relationships that have no purpose but sexual satisfaction. The distinction between love and lust and how it is arranged between consenting adults is no business of the state. It is not worthy of any protection, recognition or reward since it contributes nothing to society.
The key point however is that no one appointed the Supreme Court pope, minister, rabbi or any other form of moral authority. The court has it backwards. They have already done enough damage giving state approval to murder innocent children. Why would anyone be surprised that they would mandate that government recognize a perverse lifestyle. We have been put on notice for many years that the court will interpret our laws consistent with the moral beliefs the court dictates.
We say it is wrong to kill an unborn child and the court says it is not. If anyone thinks the court is not dictating morality, keep that in mind. Marriage should be what we (society) say it is, not five warped minds in black robes.
>> Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman with the intended purpose of raising a family.
That is the former definition of marriage. But recently, the legal definition of marriage has been trivialized to serve the interests of homosexuality and those looking to harm liberty and Christianity.
So many facets of society will now be adversely impacted by the govt effectively sanctioning sodomy. Children will be the Left’s primary target in this regard.
The fact that marriage falls under the purview of government gives authorities like scouts the ability to play social engineers. Marriages ought to be performed by churches and civil unions ought to be the secular, governmental, corresponding feature to it. All ought to be allowed to receive union but not so with religious marriage.