As expected, France legalized same-sex marriage today when their National Assembly voted 331-225 to approve a reconciled version of the bill that was passed by the Senate. They are the 14th nation to legalize same-sex marriage. Same-sex couples will be allowed to wed as early as June.
April 23, 2013
France legalizes same-sex marriage
Posted by Jason Dulle under Apologetics, Same-sex Marriage[5] Comments
Thinking to Believe 
April 23, 2013 at 10:44 am
We see religion losing the battle on every front; its days are numbered.
So it goes with saying:
Be the Messiah you wait for, bring the Dream to Earth.
If you are waiting for the Second Coming, you missed it already.
There is no Kingdom Come, we’re living the dream now; lose belief, supernaturalism, religion; get knowledge, use spirit of Good inside, if you can’t see it, you are not being lead by it and that’s the constant battle of Mankind: “The Spirit is willing but the Flesh is weak.” In Youth we’re partying too often, in old age we’re parting……….too late!
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April 23, 2013 at 10:54 am
You err in thinking that this is a matter of religion. It’s a matter of a proper ordering of human society. Marriage is rooted in human nature and the need for societies to bear and rear children. This is not a mark against religion, but a mark against common sense.
Jason
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May 14, 2013 at 9:09 am
Love won in Minnesota yesterday.
I will never forget what it was like to stand in the Minnesota state house and watch as so many men and women who have fought so long and hard for equality saw their home state take a giant step forward.
Equality shouldn’t be a political issue or a religious issue but unfortunately, the National Republican Association(NRA) and the National Religious Association(NRA) has made it one. They keep affirming their opposition to marriage equality, even as an increasingly large majority of Americans are moving forward on this issue.
12 down, 38 to go,
R.T.
Mayor R.T. Rybak
Minneapolis
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May 14, 2013 at 10:04 am
“Marriage equality” is a misnomer in this context. To know whether same-sex couples should be granted the status of marriage depends wholly on what marriage is. If marriage is a natural institution rooted in human biology, then talking about marriage equality in the context of same-sex relationships is like talking about “hysterectomy equality” in the context of men and women. Rhetoric always sounds nice, but this issue requires thinking, not rhetoric.
Jason
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May 14, 2013 at 11:02 am
Jason:
“If marriage is a natural institution rooted in human biology,” But that’s the point isn’t it: marriage is not rooted in human biology but sexual activity is but remember the brain is also part of human biology which is sometimes forgotten as the proverb says “Where the body is, there will the eagles(vultures), gather”.
Marriage is rooted in religious and cultural institutions to legitimize sexual activity; otherwise, sexual activity is called fornication, men-fornicators and women-harlots. A harlot’s sexual activity becomes legitimate by the societal institution of marriage, a man’s fornication becomes legitimate by the same institution.
Having said that however ancient cultures never envisioned or assumed marriage would ever give, same “apparent” sex couples legitimacy, in the same way but humankind continues to evolve and civilize and we will move on regardless of impediments by conservative tradition.
It was not so long ago in western(Christian) culture that women were not allowed to vote, were not allowed to frequent taverns and changes came slowly. Christian tradition in my mother’s day demanded that a woman wear a head covering in public called a bandana in the same way that muslims demand the Hijab to be worn in public. In my early youth the bandana was abandoned in the public arena but still demanded by church dogma to be worn by girls if entering a church. Christian Nuns were always dressed in the Penguin Burkas with headscarves when I was taught by them in High School but that too changed; albeit, slowly.
You have to understand Jason that civilizing is an ongoing process in human evolution, as incessant as the tides and the young inevitably change the flow; the old die in their ritualistic habits although more and more the older generation is also being catapulted into next generational change as change goes faster and quicker and knowledge doubles faster than your computer’s ability to update and Operating Systems(OS) become obsolete before we have grasped their full potential. You can complain all your life but the tides of change is a Law of the Universe. I just upgraded my Apple Computer OSX but the Apple store tells me the hardware only has about one more year left and it will be too old to update anymore, when I upgraded to the new OSX most of the updates were already unavailable for the old OS which forced me to upgrade without buying a new computer, but in another year it will be practically useless.
Change is also being driven in large part by Bingo The Money God and the demand for higher economic payoffs. Makes sense to me in this world of commercialism!
All marriage is, is society’s attempt to control sexual activity by discrediting sexual activity without marriage or legitimizing sexual activity with marriage. That’s all it means today but old habits of ritualism dies hard and dies long which is the reason religion thrives on ritualisms as it strives control the tides in order to maintain the status quo.
The bottom line: Arguments against change are futile
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