05/18/2004: "What really happened in Massachusetts"

A headline in the print version of today's Greensboro News & Record, referring to the events in Massachusetts yesterday, proclaims "Gay marriages resume."

Leave aside the fact that marriage is a state, not an event, and that what happened in the Bay State were weddings, ceremonies marking the beginning of marriages. What the headline writer is apparently unaware of is that yesterday was the first time in American history that same-sex weddings have taken place. What happened in San Francisco, Portland, and a handful of other locations were not weddings, same-sex marriage being unsanctioned by law in any of those jurisdictions. Rather, it was political theatre carried out by agenda driven politicians and ministers. Nothing "resumed" yesterday. Instead something completely new happened. Now, the real drama begins, as we see whether gay activists are successful in using the courts to impose their agenda on an unwilling nation, much the way four judges imposed their agenda on an unwilling state.

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on Tuesday, May 18th, Little Fly said

Yes, there are now married gay couples in the United States. I am glad to welcome these couples to the duties, rights, and responsibilities of civil marriage. I hope the best for these couples, that they may continue to grow in love, and that they may contribute to the lives of their communities. I am glad that I can now share marriage with these couples, that their relationships now has the same legitimacy as my own, and that there is one less to divide us. Sometimes America needs activists. We certainly needed Brown vs. Board, and that did not foster any fewer complaints that activists had overrun the judicial system. I don't see why now should be any easier. Needless to say Westboro Baptist is in a rage. Who is ready to stand alongside them on the picket line?

on Tuesday, May 18th, ABJ said

I doubt that Jesus would...

on Wednesday, May 26th, Paul said

I am sure that Jesus, at the beginning of such a flouting of Biblical teachings about God's purposes for creating male and female, would repeat this:

O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? (Matt. 17:17 and Luke 9:41)

on Wednesday, May 26th, Little Fly said

Only as long as he wants to, I guess. I'm sure Jesus has equally terrible plans for everyone who has had premarital sex or has gotten a divorce, which means heaven should be pretty empty for the rest of us.