Comments on: What ‘equal marriage’ advocates don’t seem to get http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2011/05/19/what-equal-marriage-advocates-dont-seem-to-get/ News and views on Utah public policy Thu, 16 May 2013 23:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dave http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2011/05/19/what-equal-marriage-advocates-dont-seem-to-get/#comment-1064 Dave Thu, 19 May 2011 19:46:00 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news/?p=380#comment-1064 Dimitri,
Of course not every marriage must produce children to be “valid.” But as Maggie Gallagher, president of NOM, said recently, only societies that, as a whole, reproduce enough can endure. Doesn’t a government have a keen interest in seeing its society flourish and grow? If so, then why wouldn’t that government encourage the types of relationships that actually lead to that growth?

Regarding religious liberty, you are free to have any type of religious marriage you want, but the state has no obligation to endorse that religious activity. The state’s endorsement or non-endorsement has no impact on whether your religious marriage is valid in the eyes of your God. Again, the state has an interest in marriage as a powerful societal bond, as have all governments throughout time, because that bond produces the types of relationships that actually lead to the survival and promulgation of that society.
 

]]> By: Dimitri Moumoulidis http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2011/05/19/what-equal-marriage-advocates-dont-seem-to-get/#comment-1063 Dimitri Moumoulidis Thu, 19 May 2011 18:27:00 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news/?p=380#comment-1063 I must have missed the part where the state told my wife and I that our marriage is not valid unless we produce children and provide a “mother” and “father” for those children.  Besides I do not believe government has any business even defining marriage as long as my religion permits marriage equality while yours does not.  It is a gross infringement on my religious liberty.  It is intrusive and reeks of big government control over religious matters.

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