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Re: More Election Bad News?
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Sat, 23 Oct 2004 06:39:02 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, J. Spencer Rezkalla wrote:
> > Looks like Proposal 2, a state amendment banning all forms of homosexual unions
> > will be passed in Michigan:
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> > http://www.detnews.com/2004/politics/0410/22/a01-312436.htm
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> > I don't get it. Can't we have the word 'marriage' stricken from all our laws and
> > legalese and replaced with the term "civil union", open to all hetro and gay
> > couples? Churches can then be free to define their own "marriages" as religious
> > (yet non-legal) contracts sanctioned by God?
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> > Doesn't that then afford equal rights under the law and yet preserve the
> > so-called traditional "definition of marriage"?
> >
> > Spencer
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> I agree. Government has absolutly no business defining "marriage" be it hetero,
> homo, or anything else.
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> -Orion
Exactly right. As a Christain I can no longer place any respect on a government
defined or endorsed marriage. And looking back I see that I never should have.
A true marriage is a union before God, and it doesn't matter at all what the
state says. They shouldn't be in the business of issuing marriage liscenses at
all - that is a duty of the church or of whatever non-religious non-governmental
system you want to use if you don't identify with a church.
-Matt :)
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| (...) What about this: Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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