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Regarding yesterday's judicial overturn of California's Proposition 8, a facebook friend asks, "Why do religious people refuse to accept the SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE?"
If the separation of church and state is the issue, then let's well and truly separate them. Let religion keep marriage, which it's had far longer than any state has existed, and let the state keep its laws off our sacraments and come up with its own relationship-defining contracts.
Even Jefferson's wall of separation was formulated in terms of a restriction on the actions of the state. Nowadays, the restrictions seem to work only in the other direction. Let religion so much as peek over Jefferson's wall and say something about the state's stuff, and we have screaming, shouting, demonstrations and lawsuits. Meanwhile, the state is free to come and go as it wishes, plundering and regulating whatever it touches.
Showing posts with label Marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marriage. Show all posts
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Monday, July 22, 2002
Saint Monica, keep praying for us
The blogs are buzzing about marriage between Catholics and Wiccans, a.k.a. pagans. Not that I'm in favor of it, but here's a Catholic/pagan marriage that turned out pretty well. As Mark Shea notes, you should be a saint before trying this at home.
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