Civil unions?
My state, New Hampshire, today became one on 4 states allowing civil unions. “This legislation is a matter of conscience, fairness and of preventing discrimination,” said the governors spokesman Colin Manning.
My question is “what is wrong with the other 46?”
http://www.wmur.com/news/13192864/detail.html
I don’t need you to quote the Bible to me. I have read it many times and understand it well.
This isn’t “marriage”. It is “equal protection under the law.”
Marriage is a religious ceremony. Civil unions are legal contracts. Please try and distinguish between the two.
I guess you just have to pitch it lower and slower, buddy. Draw it large for them with chalk.
“Equal protection under the law.”
They read your words, but interpret what they want.
It’s like,”I hear the words emanating from my mouth…what is it they don’t understand?”
My opinion is: any couple of any gender that can keep a relationship together for 8 years is “beating the odds” for divorce. Face the ugly statistics; heteros have not done all that well in keeping things together. Why should they claim the right to set standards?
Furthermore, who feels that they are so righteous, principled and masterful in constitutional law and social justice, that they have the right to “close the door” on social and political “evolution” by denying gays the right to marry?
Let’s take a brief look at American history; specifically how LONG it took supposedly “Christian” people to come to their collective senses about social inequalities.
It took us 89 years before we ended slavery with the 13th Amendment.
It took us 94 years to ratify the 15th Amendment which originally gave blacks the right to vote.
In 1919, we took a giant step backward with Prohibition, and it took us another 14 yrs. to figure out that it was a stupid and unenforceable idea.
It took us 142 yrs.to ratify the the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
It took us 188 years to REALLY give blacks the right to vote, by repealing the poll tax with the 24th Amendment, and to pass the Civil Rights Act.
And it took us 195 years to figure out that if men we old enough to die in war, they were old enough to vote.
So, basically, it took almost 200 years from the birth of this country, for us to come to the conclusion that these aforementioned things were WRONG with our society, and correct them.
And now, people think that suddenly “social evolution” will just come to a grinding halt, and we can just refuse same-sex couples and and all equality and equal representation under law or social justice?
This is as “far” as we can go with equality?
Speechless…Silencing the Christians – Part 2 of 7
