There’s all this religious controversy over the pledge of allegiance, “in God we trust” on our money, anything religious in public schools, holiday recognition for non-Christian faiths and yata, yata, yata.
Now, I do understand that, technically, it’s legislative descriptions in the Family Code of the California Constitution that prevent same sex marriages from being recognized or considered “legal”. But I believe those gender-specific descriptions are based on religious principal. Prop 8 was introduced as the “California Marriage Protection Act”. What is it that they want to protect? The sanctity of marriage under God. If we’re okay with dumping all other religious connections in the name of political or religious correctness, then why bother with this? We’ve turned into this mishmash pot of hypocritical standards that have no consistency. Don’t get me wrong. It’s my personal opinion that marriage is personal decision between two people regardless of sex, race, religion or whatever. It just bothers me that there’s all this religious hubub going back and forth between both sides.
I’m done ranting. Except that … wait? Isn’t marriage a “civil” contract or liberty or something like that?
I wouldn’t mind taking marriage away from everyone. Have civil unions for everyone, gay or straight, and if you want to get married, go to a church and let that church decide if they want to marry you. I don’t WANT to get married, if getting married means that you’ve committed something to/in front of/for God. But if I want to make a social and legal commitment to someone, so that if, perish the thought, my partner were to divorce me or die, I’d be able to keep custody of the children if, say, his parents didn’t like me and fought me for it. Seriously terrible syntax there, sorry. So take marriage out of the government, take government out of marriage. Does that make any sense?
Here’s what I don’t understand …
There’s all this religious controversy over the pledge of allegiance, “in God we trust” on our money, anything religious in public schools, holiday recognition for non-Christian faiths and yata, yata, yata.
Now, I do understand that, technically, it’s legislative descriptions in the Family Code of the California Constitution that prevent same sex marriages from being recognized or considered “legal”. But I believe those gender-specific descriptions are based on religious principal. Prop 8 was introduced as the “California Marriage Protection Act”. What is it that they want to protect? The sanctity of marriage under God. If we’re okay with dumping all other religious connections in the name of political or religious correctness, then why bother with this? We’ve turned into this mishmash pot of hypocritical standards that have no consistency. Don’t get me wrong. It’s my personal opinion that marriage is personal decision between two people regardless of sex, race, religion or whatever. It just bothers me that there’s all this religious hubub going back and forth between both sides.
I’m done ranting. Except that … wait? Isn’t marriage a “civil” contract or liberty or something like that?
Okay, officially done now.
I wouldn’t mind taking marriage away from everyone. Have civil unions for everyone, gay or straight, and if you want to get married, go to a church and let that church decide if they want to marry you. I don’t WANT to get married, if getting married means that you’ve committed something to/in front of/for God. But if I want to make a social and legal commitment to someone, so that if, perish the thought, my partner were to divorce me or die, I’d be able to keep custody of the children if, say, his parents didn’t like me and fought me for it. Seriously terrible syntax there, sorry. So take marriage out of the government, take government out of marriage. Does that make any sense?