SANCTITY USA
2/17/04
[WHEN IT WAS OVER, I HAD TO ASK MY WIFE “WHAT KIND OF SERVICE WAS THAT?”. SHE, HERSELF, WASN’T REALLY SURE. AFTER SOME SINGING BY A LOCAL CHOIR MADE UP OF THE GROOM’S MOTHER AND SOME OF HER FRIENDS, AND SOME MUSIC AND SINGING BY THE BRIDE’S BROTHER AND SOME OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE, AN AUNT OF THE BRIDE READ THE FIRST, WHAT I THINK OF AS THE REAL VERSION (BEFORE SOMEBODY THREW IN THAT LUDICROUS SEXIST FAIRY TALE ABOUT THE RIB), OF THE CREATION FROM GENESIS. THEN THE YOUNG COUPLE, JOHN AND BARBARA, ACTUALLY MARRIED THEMSELVES. THEY SAID THEIR VOWS WITH NONE OF THE CUSTOMARY PROMPTING, AND WHEN THEY HAD FINISHED, THE PRIEST STEPPED FORWARD FROM HIS POSITION AS SPECTATOR AND INTRODUCED THEM AS HUSBAND AND WIFE. VERY CIVILIZED.]
OUR YOUNG WARRIOR KING WOULD HAVE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TAKE CONTROL OF THE “SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE”, TO ASSURE THAT IT MEANS WHAT HE SAYS IT SHOULD MEAN.
THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE CAN ONLY BE ACCOMPLISHED AND MAINTAINED BY THOSE WHO PARTICIPATE IN IT.
MOST MARRIAGES IN THIS COUNTRY ARE INITIATED TO SATISFY A LUST, AND WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THAT IS THEY MAY BECOME SANCTIFIED WITHIN THEMSELVES, OR THEY MAY END IN SOME FORM OF DISASTER. THE RESULTS OF A MARRIAGE CANNOT BE DICTATED WITH FEDERAL LAW.
IT SEEMS ANTI-AMERICAN IN THIS GREAT, FREEDOM-LOVING COUNTRY, FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PROPOSE TO DICTATE REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURES FOR THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE, WHICH SHOULD BE A PROFOUND EXPERIENCE, BASED ON FAITH, FOR TWO PEOPLE, NOT FOR THE WHIMS OF GOVERNMENT.
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