Don’t mess with Texas
By Marc • Nov 9th, 2005 • Category: In Other News....Texas voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, making their state the 19th to take that step. In Maine, however, a proposal to repeal a new gay-rights law was trailing in early returns.
This is good news from Texas. Everywhere people are standing up for the sanctity of marriage. Texas (as stated) is one of now 19 states to officially proclaim that marriage is between a man and woman. Let’s hear it for the great state of Texas!
I’ve got nothing against offer the same legal benefits of marriage to members of homosexual unions. Where I work, the benefits are provided to domestic partners (of any type) of employees just the same as spouses. I also don’t mind giving the same sorts of rights to partners that they’ve been asking for for years, for instance when one is in the hospital. I have no right to say how people can live their lives, no matter how much I feel it’s wrong. But don’t for a second try to dictate to me what a marriage is. Marriage is the cornerstone to a family. The next step in building a family is being fruitful and multiplying. Partners in a homosexual union can’t do this. They can’t be a family. So, I’ll leave you and your household alone if you leave God’s sacrament that I cherish so dear alone. OK?
Marc is a Catholic technology geek living in Tennessee. He blogs at Wild Tangents and is the host of the Catholic Vocations Podcast.
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