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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Good first step but still a long way to go.
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
You do understand that every marriage is a civil contract don't you?
Before you can get married in the US you must first get a license from the state. If the ceremony is to be held in a Church, the officiant marries the parties under power vested by the State and God. There is no such thing as a non-civil marriage in the US. Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Yes, in the US recognized Clergy can perform the actual ceremony and can bless a marriage but all marriages in the US are still licensed civil contracts.
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Let me try to explain where the real problem related to terms lies in the US.
We have over 1000 KNOWN Federal Laws and Statutes that regulate things based on the terms "married", "husband", "wife" and "spouse" alone. There are an unknown number of State, County, City and Regional laws and statutes that also use those specific terms. Then there are all of the insurance contracts, employee rules and regulations, even club and society contracts that use those terms. If we were to institute new terms such as Civil Union or Domestic Partner then each of those pre-existing references would have to be searched out and the document modified to really make the new terms equal. There are several possible ways to address the issue, the simplest would be to pass one law that says the term Civil Union and Marriage are equal and may be freely substituted, and that sets correspondence between each of the terms in question. If that were done then none of the existing laws, rules, regulations, contracts, agreements would need to be changed. Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
NJ writes: I think it is wrong for religion to say that two homosexuals cannot marry because it offends their religion. But I also think it is wrong for a religion to be forced to marry homosexuals if it goes against their religion. But no one is saying that or has ever said that. For example, Roman Catholics are free to refuse to marry a couple where one or more of the parties are NOT Roman Catholic or has been divorced. A Baptist minister is not forced to marry a Jewish couple.
NJ writes: My way, because marriage was never state-sanctioned in the past to begin with. This is a recent invention, and one that totally flies in the face of the Constitution. The Netherlands does it just fine, and it is completely practical. Not quite. In the Netherlands you must first have a civil ceremony. Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Why would it be any different than any of the other reasons Clergy can refuse to marry someone?
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
NJ writes: BUT, if what Jar says is true (that any religion can deny whomever they want for religious purposes) then I see no viable objection. Please, do not just take my word for it. Test my position. Call a local Rabbi and ask if he will perform a marriage ceremony for a Roman Catholic couple, ask a Roman Catholic Priest if he will marry a divorced couple, test what I claim. Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
NJ writes: Did you need the state's permission to get married in the past? Certainly for a long, long time. There are records of marriage licenses going back to at least the 1600s in the US.
NJ writes: Why not just revoke their legal authority altogether and leave secular marriage to secular society, and let the religious have their cerimonies? That is the situation today. Marriage in the US is a purely secular contract. Churches can hold ceremonies celebrating or sanctifying that marriage. Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
I would be thrilled if that did happen. It's time that some religious practices did get challenged and criticized, but honestly, that has never come up in any of the other exceptions so I see no reason anyone would bring that scenario up. After all, why would anyone want to get a marriage sanctioned by an ignorant bigot in the first place?
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
The Rev. Canon Mary D. Glasspool of the LA Episcopal Diocese is openly gay and her long term partner Becki Sander would love to get married in the Church. That is still not possible but hopefully it will come soon. They've been together now for 22 years.
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Aren't people protected?
Isn't it legal to not associate with a subset of folk? Are religions being treated any differently then individuals? Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
hooah212002 writes: There are plenty of religious politicians, judges, people in positions of sway, etc. who are fighting this as well through various legal means. And there are plenty of religious politicians, judges, people in positions of sway, etc. who are supporting the decision as well through various legal means. For example, the just recently elected Reverend Canon of the Los Angeles Diocese of the Episcopal Church, The Rev. Canon Mary D. Glasspool, is an openly gay woman who has been in a committed relationship with her partner for over thirty years. She has a very vested interest in seeing Prop 8 overturned. Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Okay, I read your monologue.
Let me see if I can accurately summarize your position. You still believe homosexuality is wrong and that same sex marriages are somehow not real marriages but realize that what other folk do has no bearing on what you do. Is that a fair summary? Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Faith writes: Once again, the point about pedophilia was to demonstrate the weasel euphemism "sexual orientation," not equate it with other "sexual orientations." But no one has said that all sexual orientation should be accepted. Edited by jar, : fix quote boxAnyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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That all sexual orientations are not equal has never been questioned.
Which is why the average American today is more moral than the god that had little Mary knocked up.Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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