Before I get started on this week’s
topic, I just want to say how disappointed I am that we as a society are so
easily misdirected. We should be working on building an orbiting solar shield
and a national EMP protection system, which in turn would cure our economic woes.
Instead, we are all worked up about gay
marriage, WTF is wrong with us?
So let me
tell you how I would solve this problem so we can get back the important stuff.
Remove the term “Marriage” from all legal documents and replace it with the
term “Civil Union”. Then we define Civil Unions as a contract between two (and
only two) consenting human adults not of blood relations. Pretty much, legally speaking, everything
stays the same, except that we don’t restrict Civil Unions to any particular
gender definition. The reason why this is so simple is because Marriage is a
religious term, not a legal term. The separation of church and state practically
demands that we remove the term Marriage from all legal documents.
On that
note: people ask me about gay adoption. I then say what about transgender natural
parents? The possibilities of combinations to a modern family unit is all too
confusing and should be taken on case by case bases, by each state, as it
currently is. In other words, let the will of the people, child protection and
adoption agencies decide.
In the defense
of Marriage, as a married man I would like to say that I am proud to be married
and would be tickled to death to see everybody make a celebrated commitment in front
of their community to another person for the rest of their life. But Marriage
is not just a contract; it is a lot of work. My wife and I were married in a
church and we had to follow the rules of that church and its’ religion. As such
we cannot be unmarried where as a Civil Union can be broken, our religion does
not permit divorce. If a LGBTI couple wants to be married, then they need to find
a church that will marry them (I believe Episcopalians are down with that). Afterwards
they would need to get a Civil Union License just as my wife and I had to get a
License at the court house after we were married. In my world, there would be
no difference between what we did, and what any other type of couple could do.
What
I do not want to see is the government declaring marriage a civil right. Just
imagine the federal government arresting a Catholic priest for violating the
Civil Rights of a LGBTI couple because he would not marry them in his church! Every
religion has the right to do what it believes is right just as the Boy Scouts
have the right to do whatever they believe is right. Private organizations have
the same rights as private individuals and the government is not going to tell you who to
have sex with, right? But if they did... It would time to get our guns.
