Everybody gets all up in arms over the proposed homosexual marriage agenda.
If they really knew what getting a marriage license in our country meant, perhaps they would rethink their stance?
I knew that the state had a different view of marriage than we the people did. I just did not know how that view was defined. Most of us view marriage as a union between a man and a woman before God.
Uhhh...the state does not view it as such.
The author of this article wrote that a certain man met one afternoon with the head of the Maricopa County Superior Court, Marriage License Bureau, in downtown Phoenix to ask explanation of the marriage laws. His wife was filing for divorce and he was preparing a counterclaim to the Petition for Dissolution her attorney filed in Domestic Relations (DR) court.
What he found was what would be astonishing to most of us. I even think that most pastors who join together a man and a woman in holy matrimony don't even know how the state views marriage...just why people must get a marriage license and the preacher sign it.
Excerpt:
...the marriage license is
Secular Contract between the parties and the State.
The
State is the principal party in that Secular Contract. The husband and wife are secondary or inferior parties. The Secular Contract is a three-way contract between the State, as Principal, and the husband and wife as the other two legs of the Contract.
He said, in the traditional sense a marriage is a covenant between the husband and wife and God. But in the Secular Contract with the state, reference to God is a "dotted line," and not officially considered included in the Secular Contract at all. He said, if the husband and wife wish to include God as a party in their marriage, that is a "dotted line" they will have to add in their own minds. The state's marriage license is "strictly secular," he said.
He said further, that what he meant by the relationship to God being a "dotted line" meant that the State regards any mention of God as irrelevant, even meaningless.
In his description of the marriage license contract, he related one other "dotted line."
He said in the traditional religious context, marriage was a covenant between the husband and wife and God with husband and wife joined as one. This is not the case in the secular realm of the state's marriage license contract. The State is the Principal or dominant party. The husband and wife are merely contractually "joined" as business partners, not in any religious union. They may even be considered, he said, connected to each other by another "dotted line."
The picture he was trying to paint was that of a triangle with the State at the top and a solid line extending from the apex, the State, down the left side to the husband, and a separate solid line extending down the right side to the wife, a dotted line merely showing that they consider themselves to have entered into a religious union of some sort that is irrrelevant to the State.
He further mentioned that this religious overtone is recognized by the State by requiring that the marriage must be solemnized either by a state official or by a minister of religion that has been deputized by the State to perform the marriage ceremony and make a return of the signed and executed marriage license to the State.
Again, he emphasized that marriage is a strictily secular relationship so far as the State is concerned and because it is looked upon as a "privileged business enterprise," various tax advantages and other political privileges have become attached to the marriage license contract that have nothing at all to do with marriage as a religious covenant or bond between God and a man and a woman.
http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/secularmarriage.shtml
So....in this context...although most of us do not agree with legalizing gay marriage...in the state's point of view, it has no religious connotations...but a contractual relationship between the three entities.
Since Romney was the first to sign gay marriage into law in Massachusetts and several more states since jumped on that bandwagon, I foresee that this entire country will end up having to recognize gay marriage just as all the states recognize heterosexual marriages from other states.
Just so you know...and be getting ready for it because I predict that the Supreme Court will someday rule gay marriage to be law of the land since they view marriage as a contract. It will probably happen whether we had Romney as president or Obama as president.
Jesus foretold that: And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Luke 17:26-30
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