Well said.cb1000rider wrote:
Want a marriage policy that we call can agree on?
Marriage is a religious institution. One of the basic founding principles of our country is separation of church and state.
The government should get out of the marriage business. If they want to regulate something, they can regulate civil unions.
Churches get to regulate marriage and via that means, they can include or exclude whomever they want per moral doctrine.
Rights granted to citizens should not be predicated on marriage. They should be predicated on civil union. To do anything else results in some form of inequality and discrimination.
I have always said that we will do much better as Christians (I work in a church) to live out what marriage is rather than tell others what it is not. I know it is not as simple as that, but it sure starts with living our lives the way we desire others to live.