Christians for Gay Marriage

[kdavoli]

Given yesterday's California's Supreme Court ruling, I was asked to comment and clarify a previous post of mine, in which I discussed civil unions. Here is the main point:

The language in the California law sated: “Marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil contract between a man and a woman...” (the "between a man and a woman" phrase

Comments

[kdavoli]

...no. For several reasons. The most compelling of which is that it is more useful to opponents of gay marriage to amend California's constitution, rather than focus on the national case.

Thus, I and several million other pundits, expect their next step to be a referendum question in November on Cali's ballots: "should we amend the state constitution to ..."

[tacky_tramp]

I like your line of reasoning, but so many straight people's heads would explode if the government started calling them "civil unioned" instead of "married." It's the height of religious privilege -- they'll say on one hand that marriage is "sacred," and then on the other hand say that they can't imagine government not being all up in their sacred institution because it's in society's best interest for the state to encourage it, blah blah blah.

Sorry. Agnostic with anti-marriage tendencies. *g*

[enemyofgods]

So... after going to my brother's graduation and listening to their guest speaker ask the audience "to accept Jesus in your hearts" and reminded us to "pray every day" I was pretty angry,
My grandfather made a comment that the ACLU should be called because it was inappropriate and I had this brief impression that maybe there was some sort of reason in him after all... until we got home and he told me that there should be an amendment declaring the united states a christian nation because it is our history and thats where we come from.

What I'm getting to is... after that conversation I have lost all hope that there is anything rational that most americans can deal with when it come to religion...