Monday, February 13, 2012

Family By Definition

This will not take but a minute.  I swear.

North Carolina has an opportunity to vote on an amendment to our state constitution that will allow marriage to be defined as the union between a man and a woman.  The proponents of this law feel that it is a Biblical mandate.  The opponents fear that not only will the limitations it proposes limit their rights but will eventually erode things like benefits and estate planning for their more non-traditional family units.

I'm going to keep this simple.  ANY time we allow our government to narrow the definition of what is allowed in the choices we make in our lives, even in the slightest way, we open that wide door to the slippery slope of governmental mandated control over an ever increasing portion of our freedom.

Simply put, I am a straight man married to a straight woman.  It is my highly less than humble opinion that if two people, regardless of gender or orientation, fall in love and choose to marry then who in the name of all we as a people hold holy are we to stop them.  This world is so short of loving homes in which to foster a family.  Why do we seem so determined to narrow mindedly forbid this from happening just because some of us are uncomfortable because someone is different from us?

Guess what folks, the last time we went through this it was called segregation.

Growing pains are just that, even for a society.  Let's hopefully have the sense to not presribe morphine for them.

Like I said, just my less than humble opinion.  I intend to act on mine by voting.  How about you?

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