You know how when you first walk into a dark room, you can't see or make your way around and it scares you move around the room, it takes a little while for your eyes to adjust. But after a little time, your eyes adjust and you can see better. Then things are ok, you can move around the room safely, see things a little better, your more comfortable.
This is how we have become, we have adjusted to the dark.
I remember when I was a kid and the pastor would preach about 666 and the end times and how time was running out. It used to send chills down my spine, people who had been walking the fence would be at the alters.
Today? Don't even phase us. All the changes in the world don't matter anymore. We just tell our pastor "Hey, thats just the way things are in todays world". Instead of attempting to turn the light on or leave the room, we have chosen to become adjusted to the dark. We are comfortable here.
Although I understand what your saying the flip side to this is the simple fact that we as humans are emotional beings and emotions need a lot of work to be maintained -and are never a good reason to do something. I remember powerful sermons about the end times, mark of the beast, and hell as well, causing huge numbers of people to flood the alters, but only for a while. At some point a person has to do things for intellectual reasons, and not emotional ones because emotions fade but one plus one will always equal two.
Although I understand what your saying the flip side to this is the simple fact that we as humans are emotional beings and emotions need a lot of work to be maintained -and are never a good reason to do something. I remember powerful sermons about the end times, mark of the beast, and hell as well, causing huge numbers of people to flood the alters, but only for a while. At some point a person has to do things for intellectual reasons, and not emotional ones because emotions fade but one plus one will always equal two.
Your arguments don't, IMO, justify prohibiting it.
"Most married couples want children."
I asked about those who don't want children. You didn't answer. Should they be prohibited from marrying?
"Infertile couples can adopt."
Gay couples can adopt.
Absolutely not; the decision is up to the couple. If a couple decides to not have any children, this in no way justifies 2 people of the same sex getting married.
The Lawsuits will be piling up. When children grow up in homes where they were adopted by Gay Couples, when they are old enough to ponder what happened to them as a baby, they will be looking for an Attorney. We have enough problems with children going to homes where there are Male and Female Couples.
Remember, I was adopted and know exactly what questions arise when adopted children become adults.
Different scenarios. Man+Woman<sometimes equals> children. (But not in my own personal case)
Drunken frat boy+drunken slut<often equals)children as well.
Uh, so where did you come from?
My mother was 15 when she became pregnant (out of wedlock) with me. My father, who had just robbed a bank, was fleeing the State of California with my mother in the car. A State road block halted the car and my father was taken to jail, after they unloaded their guns on my fathers car.
None of this changes; Man+Woman=Children. Marriage belongs right here, period.
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Do any of you believe that the GOVERNMENT should dissolve second marriages?
At least half of Christendom would condemn second marriages as unholy adulterous relationships... while the other half would primarily want to know the "grounds for divorce" to determine how many of those they are willing to view as adulterous and unholy relationships.
Or do you feel that in a free country individuals should be able to marry regardless of a religious body's interpretation of marriage?
As tax paying citizens, how would we feel if the GOVERNMENT slid the cold barrel of it's police power down our noses and told us who we could or could not marry?
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