The Political Inquirer

In regards to This isn’t about yelling… Keith Olberman missed the point big time.  Maybe he should have asked some people to come on his show and explain why they voted for Prop 8 rather than come up with his own reasons which are dead wrong.

The whole point of this issue for those who are against allowing gays to marry is that the government is overstepping it’s boundaries in marriage because they feel it is a religious institution.  The government over time has latched itself onto marriage(in many societies) for the purposes of property rights, and administering disputes over the lives of children.  The government can and does get involved in these exact same matters for people who are not married so marriage is not a requirement for the state to get involved.  This is not about equality, this is not about health insurance, this is not about immigration laws, this is not about a homophobic society afraid all kids are going to end up gay, this is not about prejudice, this is not about an expression of love, this is about respecting religion.  In the same way that Muslims were outraged over a cartoon of Muhammad, religious people in America are outraged over the prospect of gay marriage.

I and many others will concede that Gays should be able to have all the same civil rights as heterosexuals and by the government involving itself in marriage for the reasons previously described there are some civil rights that come with marriage.  If Gays want the benefits that come with marriage they would be wise to fight for civil unions being equal to marriage because it will be much more easy to accomplish and will provide the exact same benefits, minus the word “marriage”.  Religious people against gay marriage should step up the plate with some of their hypocrisy and recognize that marriage today has an awful lot of secularity in it and they should be fighting to get the state out of marriage for those who clearly are not religious.

In summary, the marriage process is backwards.  Today, the state marries people with a license and the Church blesses this agreement.  The way it should occur for religious people is that the Church would first marry people and then the state would recognize it.  The state on the other hand, would be free to perform as many civil unions as society dictates whether the people are gay, lesbian, heterosexual, first cousins (with or without gene screening), or even multiple spouses or where one or both parties is a minor.

As for the verse you wanted Keith “Lev 18:22 - You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it is a detestable act.”