But really, if you're understanding that, then making noise about the noise we wrap it in seems superfluous...and whenever we cobble legal synonyms it typically doesn't work out (see: separate but equal).
If you're an actual Christian by true and unfeigned faith, it shouldn't be difficult to understand the points the secular relativistic culture-induced propaganda and agenda is intentionally skewing and dismissing.
So why not let people who value marriage in the traditional sense keep getting married in churches, with God's blessing and valuing it as they are instructed to do and bear witness for those who do not?
Call it civil union with parallel privileges to the institution of marriage; prevent discrimination against Christians for standing for traditional marriage; and it's all good on all fronts.
No punitive action against churches or Christians for discretionary exclusion which is not discrimination.
Follow suit? Did you miss the 60s? About as sexually out of bounds a time as you could cobble.
Yep, and those fruit loops are the ones through whom the spirit of antichrist is perpetrating so much in all the culture-sculpting since that era and those leading up to it.
Well, no. Pedophilia violates so much of the larger cannon of law even without a fairly universal loathing that transcends religious creed, that it can't reasonably be advanced as something society will embrace.
Hebephilia and ephebophilia have been societally acceptable standards in most cultures for millennia; only finding exclusion in the very modern "first world". And yes, there's already a huge push in those directions, even if it never reaches to the youngest pre-pubescent ages. Children are being unprecedentedly sexualized, and that isn't going to abate.
I've given the reasons for that prior, but if you're interested will set them out again, beginning with biological evidence in support of the historically experiential understanding, running through how laws protecting children have actually gotten better, even since the so-called sexual revolution and ending with the foundation of consent and capacity in contract.
All valid... and somewhat of a smoke screen for the sexually deviant who are running the country and the world at large.
You'll likely get arguments for polygamy that could have teeth, depending on how a court looks at it in foundation, whether the case can be made that it's by nature exploitative and unstable, the enemy of what society expects from marriage.
Just another facet to numb everyone to on the way to inclusion while perverting the Christian marriage institution further with each passing generation.
Outside of that, I suppose yahoos of various stripes will do what they always have and attempt a legitimacy they'll never arrive at, but that's access for you, not victory.
The plummet from any remaining form of sense and reason is well underway. It is unrecoverable from a Christian standpoint.
Your anti-Christian "reasoning" is very saddening.
