Like most things that are perverted, twisted and spun out to fit whatever particular individuals believe and want, the marriage issue has been ran through the grinder, formed into messy little misshaped balls that we now are viciously lobbing at each other.
The definition of marriage or to marry includes, to join as according to custom or law, to combine, to commit, to unify, to take a spouse, to form a close union. No where in the definition does it mention a piece of paper issued by the government, federal or state, to allow you to marry. NO ONE can deny you the right to marry. Marriage is the commitment of love and loyalty between two consenting adults before the spiritual diety they believe in or by their accepted representative of that diety or simply a firm and good faith declaration to each other. Why would a person think that something as important in their life as taking a partner should fit any one religion's or person's idea of proper. Marriage is a deeply individual and personal, private commitment of the heart. If that commitment is true, you are married.
A marriage license is just a tax, a piece of bureaucratic paper that allows the counties and states to levy more of their taxes upon us. In fifty years of marriage, I don't think I've seen or touched my marriage license even twice. It does have a sentimental value to me but it has not made me love my spouse more, be more loyal or honor my union more. Those things came from the truth of our hearts.
What needs to happen in this crazy bass-ackwards country of ours is that no one should have to pay for a license to marry. Folks should marry according to their own beliefs and customs, in their chosen manner. And these unions, so long as they are not breaking laws, should not in any form or fashion be the business of city or county employees. Even though M. Kim Davis has every right to believe in her version of marriage and her right to speak and protest is protected, she has no right to pick and choose which law she obeys and she most certainly has no right to tell any other citizen they cannot have her permission to be married. Surely, there is much more productive work for someone as important and self assured as this employee to do in order to earn her salary.
Just like the flight attendant who converted to Islam, suddenly is forbidden to serve alcohol and now thinks a whole airline should accommodate her---no, wrong. She made her life choices and she is responsible to make the necessary sacrifices for her decisions. I'm very disappointed at the support that this county clerk has received. Should she have gone to jail? No, she should've been fired like any other person who will not do their job. Why would her religion, her beliefs be above all others? With all my heart and soul I believe in our freedoms, I believe in standing up for them and in fighting for them. Religious freedom, freedom of speech, right to bear arms---those are some of our precious promises. No single religion or culture gets to dictate the morals of American citizens.
I'm sad to say that I don't believe Kim Davis is a survivor as the background music belied, she is arrogant and self righteous. As another famous person that I have little respect for said, What difference does it make? If this woman has her heartfelt religions beliefs, then why does she care if someone has a worthless piece of paper that gives them permission to seek hell and damnation.
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