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It's about damn time.
Of course, a conservative friend of mine posted this on Facebook:
Over 30 states (North Carolina being the most recent) have now spoken - they want to protect marriage because it is the best environment for raising kids. Yet our president wants to redefine marriage, presidents don't define marriage, God defines marriage. God has spoken - several thousand years back - we cannot redefine what God has defined. Francis Schaffer said it well when he said, God's word is True Truth. Praise God that Billy Graham spoke on this important issue and now the voters of 30 plus states have spoken as well. Traditional Marriage!!! Another reason to vote Obama out this year. Conservaties get involved and vote and tell 5 friends to do the same!!!
I usually try not to respond to these kinds of things, but couldn't help myself this time...
The problem is, religious marriage and legal marriage are two completely separate things. Lots of people are legally married by a justice of the peace. Legal marriage doesn't dictate religious marriage rules. Should religion dictate legal marriage laws? No church is forced to marry any couple now and wouldn't be forced to marry homosexuals either. That's up to the church. Let the legal stuff be up to law, religious stuff be up to the church. Some people choose to incorporate both into one thing, but not everybody does. I know that for you, marriage was a deeply religious thing, but for a lot of people, it has nothing to do with religion, it only has to do with legal rights that people obtain when legally married. My personal opinion is that nothing should be against the law unless it infringes on someone else's civil rights and, using that as a measure, any legal adult should be able to marry any other legal adult. It's simply not my business to tell anybody else how to live if they aren't harming anybody.
I'm fully expecting to get blasted for that comment.
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