It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
People are correct in that marriage itself as an institution isn't delineated as a Constitutional right in the sense that the Constitution may declare it a right, but rather, the lack of laws against marriage would be protected by the Constitution, just as the execution of individual state laws are Constitutionally allowable.
Originally posted by Theimp
reply to post by CJCrawley
Is the camel a consenting adult?
Funny thing, it says in the end times that people will outlaw marriage
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by AQuestion
Funny thing, it says in the end times that people will outlaw marriage
hmmm, are you referring to some passage in Revelation?
I Timothy 4:1-3 "But the spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons. By means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth."
Originally posted by CosmicCitizen
.....where does one draw the line?
reply to post by CosmicCitizen
Marriage is a Union between opposite sexes and must be physically consummated to be valid.
gays are only entitled to be recognized as having civil unions with the benefits of being considered family (ie, for hospital visitations) and for passing on property and other marriage like benefits BUT society can not be forced to recognize such unions as a "marriage" per se while at the same time decriminalizing heretofore illegal behavior (ie, sodomy)
A church; therefore, can not be coerced to conduct said unions and recognize them
f we allow same sex unions to be recognized as marriage then why not plural heterosexual marriage (among consenting adults) and why not extend that sanction to incest as long as the couples take measures not to reproduce and if we get used to those unions for a generation or two then why not allow plural homosexual or incestual "marriages".....where does one draw the line?
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by Christian Voice
So... you're equating gay people with animals?
Originally posted by Siberbat
reply to post by Truth_Hz
The issue is not the legality of the behavior, because that can be changed. The issue is changing what it means to be married. Now, if homosexuals can change that definition based on lifestyle, why can't other groups do the same?
Its not about legal rights at this point, if it were we would be talking about civil unions. Because civil unions are not enough. The agenda wishes to mold society to its will and change what it means to be married. To redefine the meaning of marrage.