Gays, Guns and Marriage.

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.