According to Senator Dan Hall, the DFL is about to propose a bill that would allow notary publics to perform civil weddings.<\/p>\n
what this actually means is that the DFL campaign for “marriage equality” has been about making all forms of marriage worthless \u2013\u00a0a civil institution with all the more gravity involved in renewing your license tabs.<\/p>\n
I know conservatives say there’s\u00a0a case to be made for pushing back on this \u2013 and I think the “cheapen the institution of the family” lobby is going a bridge too far, even in Minnesota.<\/p>\n
But\u00a0even now with this proposal, I think the next step for supporters of the traditional family is obvious.<\/p>\n
It’s time for people of faith to start pushing, hard, the idea of the “covenant marriage” \u2013 a marriage, even if only initiated between people of faith and ignoring the whole civil process, that holds the ideal and idea of marriage to\u00a0a higher standard than the civil variety.<\/p>\n
One of the problems with the debate about marriage in this past couple of decades has been that it’s been a little like debating which variety of 1972 Chevy Vega was worse. Marriage in general has been cheapened in the past 40 to 50 years – no fault divorce played its role, as did the changing secular notion of “family”.\u00a0 The civic idea of “family” has changed in our society, perhaps (in its current form) fatally. The state to which marriage was actually observed in our society has slipped to a point where it’s hardly a defensible institution, its present form.<\/p>\n
Along with the drive on the part of many conservatives and people are faced to privatize marriage comes the imperative to make the religious<\/em> institution of marriage demonstrably better thing that the civil, profane alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to Senator Dan Hall, the DFL is about to propose a bill that would allow notary publics to perform civil weddings. what this actually means is that the DFL campaign for “marriage equality” has been about making all forms of marriage worthless \u2013\u00a0a civil institution with all the more gravity involved in renewing your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42738"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45771,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42738\/revisions\/45771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}