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Banzai with Banksy is fun
A new kind of bullet and gun
Now Liberty's torch
Like flowers that scorch
Show tyrants that they haven't won
The Limerick King
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However, the ceremony does not have to be in a religious institution. I suppose they set it up this way so those who want a religous ceremony can do so. Imagine if there had to be a ceremony for every civil contract.
The only guy who really covets the exemption is the guy who pays the rent for the church/drive-in and wears the robes.
those who want a religous ceremony can do so...
I won’t pretend to speak for all religious or even “Christian” folks, but my understanding of the reformed Christian faith would allow for 3 sacraments, i.e. uniquely religious rites, baptism, communion and marriage, the first two being requisite acts and the third voluntary. Traditional Catholicism adds 3-4 more, with the robe thing and alms for springing souls from purgatory topics of ridicule from bible belt US Christianity.
Beyond that, the distinction of having a religious organization being compelled to sanctify / bless a union as a “marriage” when it is nothing more than a civil union is an example of the state usurping the church’s authority. If the penalty for not doing so is the removal of tax exempt status, well, so be it. “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesars” is followed by the admonition the “render to God the things that are God’s”, and if that’s the church's free exercise of blessing only the union of a male and female in the Holy Bond of Matrimony, then the state should keep its distance.
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thank you Mr Banzai7, well written, with your heart of an artist. sometimes lately I have been a bit to acerbic.
On just a philosophical level, politics is an antithetical position to a religious one; therefore, politics needs to stay out of religion as well as vice versa.
Agreed.. on a deeper level so should politicians. Organized Religion and Politics are both human constructs and therefore ultimately destructive. Human beings having a spiritual experience or Spiritual beings having a human experience, your approach makes all the difference