CT on the Marriage Amendment failure
CT has this - it seems a little incoherent, but hey, they are after all, Christians discussing marriage.
I think James Dobson takes the cake here:
Took the easy way out? Easy? I am not in favor of gay marriage, and I agree that the Mass Supremes are hypocritical pie-in-the-sky activists, and that the 9th Circuit seems to operate directly from the same level of Hell. But, being reasonably informed on New Testament doctrine AND the U.S. Constitution, there seems to me no way around the fact that such an amendment would actually, yes, actually be writing discrimination into the Constitution, and thus inevitably be responsible for a whole new round of contemptuous Christian-encouraged hatred toward gays.
From the NRO guys and girls, to Regent University, to the Vatican, I have yet to see an argument for dealing with this issue in a way that Jesus Christ would actively support. The fact that Britney Spears has 1049 legal protections under the State that are denied to a gay couple seeking legal protections, based solely on her biological gender being opposite that of her spouse is wholly and utterly ludicrous.
I do hope no one defending the marriage amendment movement would attempt to justify her right to marriage based upon her behavior. And I must say, her behavior, her mockery, her belittling of the covenant of marriage is a hundred times more offensive to me AS A CHRISTIAN than Michael Savage or Andrew Sullivan considering anal sex to be normal human intimacy. I am wholly baffled by such a sexual point of view, but I will take such a point of view - that ultimately is seeking love and commitment and a legal definition of that commitment - over casual, careless "Christian" marriage performed for trailer park girls in Las Vegas.
But I could go on and on..... basically I'm with C.S. Lewis...civil marriage should be wholly controlled by the state, and religious marriage should be another thing entirely. It would elevate religious marriage, and civil marriage would become the cesspool the secular left deserves.
I think James Dobson takes the cake here:
"We are profoundly disappointed by the news that the House of Representatives has rejected a constitutional amendment to preserve the institution of marriage," James Dobson said. "It is our hope that America will carefully note the names of the Congressmen who pandered to the homosexual lobby and took the easy way out on this issue of unprecedented importance."
Took the easy way out? Easy? I am not in favor of gay marriage, and I agree that the Mass Supremes are hypocritical pie-in-the-sky activists, and that the 9th Circuit seems to operate directly from the same level of Hell. But, being reasonably informed on New Testament doctrine AND the U.S. Constitution, there seems to me no way around the fact that such an amendment would actually, yes, actually be writing discrimination into the Constitution, and thus inevitably be responsible for a whole new round of contemptuous Christian-encouraged hatred toward gays.
From the NRO guys and girls, to Regent University, to the Vatican, I have yet to see an argument for dealing with this issue in a way that Jesus Christ would actively support. The fact that Britney Spears has 1049 legal protections under the State that are denied to a gay couple seeking legal protections, based solely on her biological gender being opposite that of her spouse is wholly and utterly ludicrous.
I do hope no one defending the marriage amendment movement would attempt to justify her right to marriage based upon her behavior. And I must say, her behavior, her mockery, her belittling of the covenant of marriage is a hundred times more offensive to me AS A CHRISTIAN than Michael Savage or Andrew Sullivan considering anal sex to be normal human intimacy. I am wholly baffled by such a sexual point of view, but I will take such a point of view - that ultimately is seeking love and commitment and a legal definition of that commitment - over casual, careless "Christian" marriage performed for trailer park girls in Las Vegas.
But I could go on and on..... basically I'm with C.S. Lewis...civil marriage should be wholly controlled by the state, and religious marriage should be another thing entirely. It would elevate religious marriage, and civil marriage would become the cesspool the secular left deserves.
posted by JCH | 10:32 AM
2 Comments:
There is NO WAY marriage should be mentioned in constitution.
That's all we need some precedent like that
I don't want either Tom Delay OR Nancy Pelosi telling me ANYTHING about marriage
That's another good point.
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