Gay Marriage: For or Against?

[sandie]

Originally Posted by Aquila

I think that the GOVERNMENT should get out of our private lives and choices. Unless it endangers the life, liberty, and/or property of another... the GOVERNMENT (local) should simply file the papers and keep a record.

Our Founders didn't have marriage licenses. Abraham Lincoln didn't have a marriage license. In the beginning our GOVERNMENT didn't meddle in private choices unless viewed as being dangerous to another's life, liberty, and/or property.

Liberty. Remeber that concept? Personal responsibility? Remember that concept? A private life with private choices? Remember that concept?

We've become dependent on GOVERNMENT to provide and regulate everything including who we wish to choose as a life partner. I understand the moral reservations, I have them too. However, I'm MORE concerned with empowering GOVERNMENT to regulate our private lives and choices. Each side wants to use GOVERNMENT to force an agenda on the other. That's the problem. The GOVERNMENT needs to say, "Hey, we're going to allow liberty of conscience and freedom of religion." Then the GOVERNMENT needs to get it's hands out of our private lives.

I DON'T believe that GOVERNMENT is the answer. Personally, I think gay marriage will fizzle out and be proven to be just another illusion. They'll discover that marriage isn't the paradise they think it is. While you'll see a boom in gay marriages after legalization the numbers will drop significantly. Then the "gay divorces" will start pouring in. Then it will stablize as a nearly insigificant practice of a minority of primarily "religious" gay people.

From an ethical standpoint... gay or straight... if you're going to be intimate with another person, live with them, commit to life long partnership... you should consider a binding agreement. Essentially the current position in this debate is saying that gay people shouldn't live legally committed lives wherein they are legally committed to their partner. In essence, we argue against the gay lifestyle... but encourage gay promiscuity.

I'll just say to you what I said to MB:


Granting marriage to same sex people, society says the behavior is acceptable, approved and a legitmate expression of a union.
God says otherwise, and no He doesn't ask us to put them in prison, but He asks us to support what He supports.
He has called the behavior an abomination, those are strong words. Yes, He hates divorce and fornication, but those behaviors are not endorced by society in the same way same sex marraige would be.
If God says a certain behavior is wrong, then it's wrong and as a Christian I can't endorce it by making it sanctioned behavior.

There's nothing personal about how I feel. I would not and do not treat a homosexual with any less regard then any other human being. God loves us all right where we are, just how we are.

The closer we line up with God's ways as an individual and a society the better off we are.
Anyway, that's how I see things.