NC judges resigning

[Silver]

More ignorance from the theistitards.

Since North Carolina’s denial of ‘gay marriage’ was ruled to be unconstitutional, at least 6-8 family court magistrates have resigned from their positions, citing that their Christian faith prevents them from performing so-called same-sex marriages.

http://christiannews.net/2014/11/03/nort...marriages/

[The Valkyrie]

Good. It gets decent people into their positions.

The fewer conservatives in positions of power, the better.

[Minimalist]

Magnificent. So rare to find a xtian with integrity. Good to see them bailing out.

[abaris]

Good riddance.

[vorlon13]

Fucking hypocrites for the ones that issued (re)marriage licenses to divorced people.

Goddamn cherry pickers.


(so to speak)

[simplemoss]

I simply never understood gay marriage granted I support gay rights fully overall but isn't marriage a religious institution? Shouldn't the government be seperating itself from religous rituals? I'm not gay but I don't understand why the lgbt community does not fight against what is essentially government regulation of sexual behaviour am I wrong here?

[Jaysyn]

Isn't marriage a religious institution?

Not in the USA, the churches aren't the ones giving out a huge list of tax & other miscellaneous benefits. Also, marriage has been around a lot longer than Christianity, they just co-opted it. Kinda like Christmas & other major pagan holidays.

[The Grand Nudger]

I simply never understood gay marriage granted I support gay rights fully overall but isn't marriage a religious institution?

It's an "institution" that religious groups often attempt to appropriate for themselves, but no - it is not (nor has it really ever been) a "religious institution" -itself.

[Jenny A]

I simply never understood gay marriage granted I support gay rights fully overall but isn't marriage a religious institution? Shouldn't the government be seperating itself from religous rituals? I'm not gay but I don't understand why the lgbt community does not fight against what is essentially government regulation of sexual behaviour am I wrong here?

Marriage is about as a religious only a thing as the sale of real property.

In the ancient world, it was for making sure everyone knew whose babies were whose, property settlements, and alliances between men. Some cultures had a ceremony involving the gods, but they had ceremonies involving the gods for the sale of property, crowning of kings, the election of Roman officials, and setting the cornerstones of buildings.

Although the OT and the NT both talk about marriage, neither suggests it's a covenant with god thing. And even if they did, who cares when virtually every culture has had marriage as an institution and it's been a primarily secular institution.

The OT concern is not marrying outside the Hebrew tribes. What descriptions there are, do not, unlike say the descriptions of how to sacrifice meat, involve religious ceremonies. They involve negotiations over money and women passing hands, and treaty alliances.

In the NT it's a thing you do so as not to have adulterous sex, even if that adulterous sex is only in the privacy of your own mind. With Jesus comes the thought police.

In the U.S., where in most states adultery isn't a crime, the legal descriptions of marriage rights are all about money, property, and who takes care of/gets the kids.

Any religious aspect is religious add-on and applies only to the particular sect that believes that particular add-on.

[The Grand Nudger]

In the ancient world, it was for making sure everyone knew whose babies were whose, property settlements, and alliances between men. Some cultures had a ceremony involving the gods, but they had ceremonies involving the gods for the sale of property, crowning of kings, the election of Roman officials, and setting the cornerstones of buildings.

Yup....just the states stamp of approval in each case. I don't think that in any example of such a ceremony god is/was required to attend or validate any documents or agreements, eh? lol. It would have taken an awfully long time to get married or sell property if that were the case (or even if people believed it was the case). Since we don't see any such obstruction in evidence...I think it's safe to conclude that even those people who attended or facilitated those ceremonies were content with the secular proceedings. Faith was then, as now - additional pomp and pageantry with regards to marriage/the sale of property.

(people where I'm at makes deals based upon "their word as a christian" -and of course....binding contracts. Don't even get me started on these amish nitwits.......)