Let marriage be available to all
Finally, some blessed sanity, in this sea of lunacy and lies, recognizing the constitutional right of homosexuals to marry. Rights are not subject to referendums. Long before marriage became a sacred rite and institution, marriage was a legal contract.
Despite the rabid rants the religious right regurgitate, marriage is a civil legal contract. To marry, one must visit the courthouse and obtain a marriage license, while divorce requires another courthouse visit and legal endorsement. Furthermore, one may be married by a judge, justice of the peace, or captain of a ship, in addition to men and women of God.
Matrimony being thus a matter of law and not religion, in our grand republic citizens are entitled to equal protection under the law. Marriage being essentially a contract between two people pledging a lifetime commitment, there is no legal or rational reason to deny homosexuals
this contractual right. Case closed.
As upsetting as it may be to some, God did not institute monogamous marriage between Adam and Eve, cleaving unto each other and becoming one flesh. Rather, the use of concubines and polygamy were practiced by God’s chosen, most excessively by King Solomon, with nary a
reprimand or condemnation. Marriage originated as a legal contract, long before it was blessed by any religion and transformed into the holy state of matrimony.
The exclusion of homosexuals from state-sanctioned marriage has created catastrophic consequences. Denied monogamy, persecuted as depraved and perverse, these societal outcasts were condemned to a polygamous, promiscuous, surreptitious sexuality – a far cry from the special, even honored, positions homosexuals held in “primitive” societies.
The Jews mercifully found a way to defy and disobey God’s direct commandment to stone homosexuals to death. Why, oh why, can’t Christians practice their religion and do unto others, as they would have done unto them?
