I have written about gay marriage before. Today I will write about Civil Unions because yesterday the Colorado Senate passed a bill allowing Civil Unions.
As usual, there seem to be a large number of Christians (fundamentalists) who say they are against this. In fact, these "Christianists" as I am going to call them from now on, are boo-hooing that their First Amendment rights are being trampled on. These Christianists argue that the state is making a law which is against their religion and that because of this, the law is illegal.
But this is a perverted twisting of the First Amendment.
The First Amendment disallows any federal law which is made IN FAVOR of a religion because otherwise that religion would become favored in the eyes of the law.
The Christianists make it seem as if anyone who is in favor of Gay Marriage or Civil Unions is doing so based on their own interpretation of religious law--that in effect the federal government is favoring the "Gay Religious Movement" over the Christian Religious movement.
This is not what is happening.
Allowing Civil Unions and Gay Marriage is not an attempt to impress one religious view over another. Rather, by allowing Civil Unions and Gay Marriage we are breaking the bonds that religion holds over our society.
This is a wonderful thing.
Breaking the bonds that religion holds over our society means that religion will now be about GOD and not about CONTROL.
What a wonderful thing to do--both for our society and for religion.
And those people who still want their religion to be about control?
They can still be religious in that way. Go ahead. You're free to do it. You just can't use your religion to control other people.
Way to go Civil Unions!
