Is this like saying her hand won't be on the gas chamber valve? Just issued the tattoo is all. Right?
Would that we could claim no involvement in evil acts, but I don't have enough sophistry in my soul to get away with it.
“Is this like saying her hand won’t be on the gas chamber valve? Just issued the tattoo is all. Right?”
If you pay taxes in the US, are you responsible for every act taken by the US government?
Nor is extending US Government benefits to homosexual marriage quite the same, morally, as executing people.
As Justice Thomas Clarence pointed out in his dissent, NOTHING prevented homosexuals from marrying in ANY church that wanted to allow it. However, the US Government and some state governments did not recognize a homosexual marriage as being valid to preferential treatment.
THAT is what the case was about. Not homosexual marriage, which WAS legal, but about extending to it the same preferential treatment by the government given to heterosexual marriage.
A county clerk who issues a license is only saying that the government is going to recognize the marriage as being such. She does not, in any way, recognize it herself. Either way, she will not be condoning homosexuality, nor depriving anyone of life or liberty.
I object to the religious validity, in the eyes of God, of a marriage of two divorced people...with some exceptions as provided by Jesus. But as a matter of law, two divorced people have the right to get a marriage license.
The church I go to will not marry them. But the government can recognize them as married.
In what way is that different?
3 Then the Pharisees arrived with a test-question. “Is it right,” they asked, “for a man to divorce his wife on any grounds whatever?”
4-6 “Haven’t you read,” he answered, “that the one who created them from the beginning ‘made them male and female’ and said: ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two separate people but one. No man therefore must separate what God has joined together.”
7 “Then why,” they retorted, “did Moses command us to give a written divorce-notice and dismiss the woman?”
8-9 “It was because you knew so little of the meaning of love that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives! But that was not the original principle. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife on any grounds except her unfaithfulness and marries some other woman commits adultery.”