Your reward and punishment is deprivation of the concocted blessings of celestial polygamous marriage and hope of becoming gods as well as light learning and understanding.
In times past, blinded by a spurious concept of Christianity, society has killed atheists, burned witches, marshaled armies against heathen and beaten and bullied persons it has subjected to slavery. Thanks to an enlightenment, those sins have been eliminated. The day has arrived for sins against God protected rights of the homosexual community to end.
Nowhere in this article do I deny the existence of a higher power for it has been my lot in life to have experienced it. Nor do I suggest that laws ought not be in place to have some semblance of civil control over the exercise of sexual freedoms which I suggest are God-given.
Protection of the innocent against rape, statutory or otherwise is required. Regulation as to the issue of propriety and decency as to the exercise of those freedoms is appropriate.
No civil statutes ought to be enacted which restrict sexual affairs between consenting adults nor any discriminatory laws or practices against the equal civil rights of those persons. Without exception, persons of same sex wishing to have the status of marriage and all the ramifications that status brings should not be denied that right on account of sexual orientation.
If the state has not yet grown up in its recognition of that right and does not wish to extend the license (proactive) for such unions it should enact legislation (passive) which grants an acknowledgement of marital status (Common Law) of two same sex adults upon request by issuing a certificate of marriage without the fanfare of a license to marry. A ceremony of marriage is not the concern of the state or the church.
KNOW THIS THAT EVERY SOUL IS FREE
To choose his life and what he'll be;
For this eternal truth is given:
That God will force no man to heaven.
He'll call, persuade, direct aright,
And bless with wisdom, love, and light,
In nameless ways be good and kind,
But never force the human mind.
Anonymous 18th Century
Time to grow up America! (And the world)
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