Three speak
With the Proposition 8 (gay marriage) argument raging in California, three letters to the editor of the pamphlet make various assertions. The first words are from Steve Scarborough, who said, "Today, marriage is [simply] an agreement of equal partners to forge a union in accordance with the rights and responsibilities prescribed by law." But marriage is much more than that.
As Ida Hammons said, "For thousands of years, marriage has been a form of religious worship wherein a man and a woman were joined in a three-way union with God in order to 'multiply and replenish the earth' and create a family unit." This is much closer to reality.
When children are born, they are gifts from God, but as Dale Rasmussen said, "Marriage [is not] a 'license' to procreate. . . In fact, those people with the most egregious lack of life skills show an amazing ability to procreate. . . [and] what we need are stable, loving families. . . ."
How can government improve on that?
posted by Don, American Idle @ 4:54 PM
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For thousands of years? For that period, marriage had nothing to do with God (proper noun) for most people on earth.
Ida probably meant 2000-3000.
Even then, most people on earth didn't worship "God". The era in which a majority worshipped God is a very recent one.
"Gods" became "God" around the time of the birth of Christ, but some prophets were talking about it earlier. Pretty much every recognized religion today has a "God" (singular) of some sort.
Well.. no. Around the birth of Christ, the worship of God (proper noun) was still a minority affair.
Furthermore, in this country, don, american, you should know that marriage was treated in most places as a civil institution, like in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Why do you hate the principles upon which this country was founded?
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