Gay Marriage

If I understand you correctly, RexRed, you are saying that because it's you do not wish to marry, you cannot understand why anyone would?

Marriage is a sacrament in Catholicism, a Christian religion. So when you say "Marriage is a tool of governments but has little or nothing to do with Christianity and the God of the Bible." I think you are not understanding what the bible is teaching.

Christian Bible is there a single mention of a marriage ceremonies rituals and how they are carried out.


There is that Water to Wine instance, in case you were interested.

RexReed:

I agree. Marriage should be what we, as individuals, make of it. The government has absolutely NO right to legislate who can and cannot get married.

I have a different take on the bible, though, in that I believe it mearly tells a great story, but nothing more. Our understanding of the world several thousand years ago would be almost impossible to imagine in today's world. Our innate fear of the world back then, and how we came to explain it in the bible, was completely void of science and logic.

But today, marriage is being used by the neoconservatives to rally the religious right and keep them in their court, and they are preying on their misguided faith in order to further their agenda.

The government cannot legislate love... They may think they can, they may think their piece of paper is all you need. But if that was the case there would be no divorce.

So what is the license for? People are having sex outside of marriage anyway... They live together for years? Is it giving your kids the fathers name? You can do that too also I believe even if you are not married. Is it having the blessing of the government? Does the government have the ability to confer the blessings of God when the government is suppose to be impartial on religious matters?

As a christian, do I really need the endorsement of a non religious government entity to validate the way I feel toward another consenting adult citizen?

Marriage was a contractual situation and had nothing to do with romance.

Ah... gay marriage. Wonderful issue <shudders>.

Let's say gay marriage becomes legal.

California Law Banning Gay Marriages Is Struck Down (Update1)
March 14 (Bloomberg) -- A California judge struck down the state's laws banning gay weddings, saying that measures defining marriage as between a man and a woman are unconstitutional.

Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer's ruling, pending appeals, would make California the second state in the U.S. to legalize gay marriages after Massachusetts. San Francisco, which conducted about 4,000 same-sex weddings last year, claimed the laws violated the rights of gays and lesbians.

``Same-sex marriage cannot be prohibited solely because California has always done so before,'' Kramer said in a 27-page tentative ruling released today in San Francisco.

Rabbi David Lazar, of the conservative Tiferet Shalom synagogue in Tel Aviv, offered prayers in Hebrew after each couple said their vows. ''You will do a ceremony with me in Tel Aviv under the chupah one day,'' Lazar told one couple after they were married, referring to the traditional canopy of Jewish weddings. ''We'll make sure that others continue to come here until we change the system.''