Headline from ABC News, Tuesday, May 26 - "Calif. High Court Upholds Gay Marriage Ban, but Allows Pre-Existing Same-Sex Marriages to Stand"
The U.S. supposedly practices the separation of church and state. Justice in the U.S. is supposedly blind. On what grounds, other than religious, could a ban on same sex marriage be upheld? The meanness and short-sightedness of some of my countrymen confounds me.
Given that it is typically Christians driving these issues, I ask, what would Jesus do? It seems reasonable to suppose that he would leave the doings of the state to the state. He went to the well. He spoke with the woman. He sought solutions in the hearts of men and women and not through external controls. He loved.
"It is not for you to call profane what God counts clean." Acts 11:9
and it seems from this... as in other places... it is not for "you" or "me" to call, but some higher authority to determine the question of worthiness...
2 comments:
CALIFORNIA! You're supposed to be the spearhead of progress?! Government just needs to STOP using the word "Marriage" all together! Government should ONLY used the term "civil union" for EVERY legal partnering. If Gov replaced the "M" word, the religious would be forced to formulate a deeper argument, which will help in exposing their underlying motivation as HATE. The first step in separation of church and state needs to be differentiation of vocabulary, just like you remove all subjective (variably interpretable) language from legal documents. Does this seem to be the essence of the problem?
d'accord!
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