Alabama's Chief Justice is against gay marriages and even ordered probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples. Why? America a theocracy? This is one fight he can't win and he knows it. He just should resign if he feels he doesn't want marriage licenses issued to anyone while he's still Alabama's chief justice.
Religion governs the unspoken moral laws, and state and federal laws govern the tangible laws; surely someone who went to law school knows that. Sometimes I do worry about how these people get qualified and where they studied. They may not agree with the law, but their job is to enact it and not decide if the court made the right decision.
What I never can get is why anyone should oppose gay marriage. If two adults want to get married why should anyone try to stop them? This judge though he claims to be a Christian knows little about the religion — render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's . . .
Religious laws should be taken into context and if something is legal, then pulling the religion card doesn't make it illegal. It may seem immoral to some, but it's not illegal. Some of these states have old antiquated ideals, and sadly these attitudes are still around and being passed down the generations. While a state is entitled to make their own state laws, they signed the pact to enact federal laws and not to pick and choose what they want. Many do and try to find a loophole, but how are they helping society by creating more unnecessary paperwork?
I totally agree. If two people want to get married they should be able to. It shouldn't matter what gender they are. Religion shouldn't play a part in it.
He must know that his argument is not going to have any weight at all to it surely. Maybe he's trying to get fired or something? Whether he believes it or not, the world has changed a lot and he should allow gay marriage. As said some posts up, if two adult people want to get married, let them. What's the harm? As a joke goes "Two men are in the bath...they are adults, what's the problem?"
The Pledge of Allegiance does contain the words "one nation under God", so it's a pretty hard sell to claim that the country is constitutionally non-religious. You might want to argue that homosexual marriage is mandated under religious principles, but again I'd say that's a pretty hard sell too....
Good! This country would be a LOT better off if all the judges were like that. But sadly, it won't matter unless people get saved. But if they were and this was happening all over the place, God would really bless this nation.