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Originally posted by: Usually Lurkinhow do you make the decision who should or should not be able to get married?
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Ideally, no one would make the decision, and our government and laws would be completely, 100% secular, and neither reference marriage nor give advantages or disadvantages to people in marriages. However, the cat is already out of the bag, and it's been out of the bag since 1776. Our government was not intended to be 100% secular, and it's impossible for our government to be 100% secular, because it's government by the people. The people will never be 100% secular, themselves. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] So, we will continue to strike a balance based on the societal norms that have grown from the fact that we are a nation built on Judeo-Christian values. It's a social fact.
And this is the crux of the Second Amendment argument.. the far left believes that the 100% secular government is acheivable, and most of the right believes in pure constructionist interpretation of the Second Amendment. And we all know where the religious right stands.. just do not confuse them with the average politically right-leaning person.
And as it usually is with American politics, we'll end up somewhere in the middle so both sides can continue to bitch. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]