Tonight The New York State Senate Approved A Bill Authorizing Same Sex "Marriage" - I Agree With Their Decision
Honestly, for several years I have been puzzled by this debate. It is like a "debate" concerning equality for women or among humans or equal pay or free speech, on and on. What debate? In these matters I come down on the side of freedom and equal treatment under the law. These Rights are unalienable and not subject to The State in the first place.
The Law passed with Republican Party support after language was included that protected the free exercise of religious beliefs and customs of all the World's religions and codified the respect for their meaning of the word "marriage." The Law prohibits the imposition of same sex definitions upon religious groups and individuals and prohibits the legal harassment by radical, mean-spirited activist upon the free exercise of religious worship as one sees fit.
Marriage continues to have a legal meaning as a contract under law and a secular and religious meaning as the foundation of society, kinship and family.
My past apprehension has been that some professing to love liberty and equality are lying and are using the struggle for equality as a smokescreen for retribution or as a scam, i.e., affirmative action programs or court-ordered racial
hiring quotas - ill conceived mandates/State sponsored inequality. I am sure that was the case with some that voted for this bill in New York and certainly the Mafia hack that is now the Democrat Governor. But, wrong reasons sometimes yield a result founded in Truth. Others voted their conscience as we all must when we encounter these human issues.
I think it is unfortunate that hateful activist had to make the word "Marriage" an issue when "Civil Unions" would have been a more descriptive term fitting the concept of equal treatment under the law. "Marriage" is a Latin derivative that over thousands of years has taken on a religious meaning. Insisting on the disrespect for that tradition was counter-productive and seems just to be "rubbing the religious faithful's noses in it." Tacky, stupid and will continue to be a sore point that could have been avoided.
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