(GAY) Marriage.
Before we get into marriage itself. I believe there is something to be
said against the current tax code. I am for the tax break granted to
married people insofar as the smaller a tax is, the closer it is to
being no tax at all, and the better. All citizens should be treated the
same. A proper ethic does not say all men (and women) should be robbed
equally, but they should not be robbed at all.
Now lets talk about marriage itself. As to whether it is between 2
men, 2 women, one man and several women, or one man and one woman, I
find the last to be the only one morally appropriate, But above that I
say it is onlyh between adults and their creator, and not between them
and government. Government has no role to play in the institution of
marriage.
Instead of the gay community pressing for state sanctioning of
their marriages, they out to advocate the elimination of the state’s
involvement in marriage all together, because it is none of the state’s
business. The Christian right should join in this movement but for a
different reason, if they are intent upon “preserving” the sanctity of
marriage, they ought to call for the abolition of state sanctioned
marriages on the grounds that it is not the government, but God who
brings two people into holy matrimony.
In either case I find the licensing or non licensing of people to
get married by the state to be unconstitutional on the grounds of the
right to assemble, and associate, and that is what a marriage is,
whether 2 men, 2 women, or 1 of each, it is an association of those
people.
Finally, this is not to say that gay marriage is moral, only that
it is unethical for anyone to involve themselves in other’s affairs
through the force of law, and again ultimately, that it is a greater
evil to say that it is the state, and not God, or at best the state,
partnered with God, that makes a marriage legitimate. Even with the
state out of the marriage business, it may be difficult to find a
church to marry two homosexuals. But then, ultimately it might not be
an issue, if the state recognizes two people living together for 6
months as common law marriage, they ought to recognize just about any
marriage.
Homosexual marriages should pose no threat to the true believer,
if they believe that it is only God who sanctions marriages; what
difference should it make to them what the state acknowledges as a
marriage (which would be necessary in the case of divorce, and dispute
settlements)?
From both the religious right and the gay community there should be a call for the separation of the state from marriage.