Writer's Block: Church and State

Marriage as it is being defined by law was nothing more than a way to determine inheritance and property merging and division in the past. The church had nothing to do with that legal contract, and the courts/government had nothing to do with the religious union of two people into one unit. It is my considered opinion that it should stay that way.

This is why a Justice of the Peace can perform a union, civil or otherwise, because all they are doing is witnessing the vows to keep the legal contract of the property correct, not joining people in holy matramony. That is the purpose of the church.

I am very glad that more mainstream churches are recognizing same sex unions. The law should not have anything to do with it. It is a shame that so few people who are screaming the loudest can affect the marriages of so many others.

Put it this way, I married a woman 16 years my senior, if the law is changed to make same sex unions illegal because there can be no children from that, then my marriage is in jeopardy too.

But that aside, it is monstrously unfair that one group can tell another how they can love, and live, with another.