Marriage is a social, spiritual, or legal union of individuals.
Since Marriage is also a Social union, then Marriage should be for all.
Since NC will be in it's own battle for Marriage this Year, its time to Move Marriage for a Religious institution to a Social Institution, where Marriage is open to all.
However the Religious Right will not see it this way. That is there right, however I say this, if they still claim that they are defending traditional marriage, yet they aren't doing anything to lower the divorce rate, to stop those who get marry as a publicity stunt. So in fact all they want is to teach hate and intolerance.
The NC4Marriage wants to write hate and intolerance and discrimination into our state Constitution, so activist Judges can't over rule the state law on marriage. They are afraid of those Citizens of NC who have gotten marriage in other states where they can legally get marriage coming back to NC and try to force a judge to recognize their union.
While we know no matter what we will said, they will counter that with a lie or some claim that they need to protect the children.
I say this If we can not marry then they should not be allow to divorce at all, no matter what. Lets force them to take those vows to heart, or in this case to the death. The only way to end your marriage it to die...
From the Bigot Tami Fitzgerald,
I am writing to invite you to participate in one of the greatest opportunities but also one of the greatest challenges confronting families and churches in North Carolina. What is at stake? Your freedom to talk about and encourage the type of family life that God designed. Your freedom to teach your children the Biblical meaning of marriage.
Ok that would mean that men are the head of the house, that he can sell his daughter into slavery if he wishes. But we all know that those who use the bible to preach their hatred only choose bits and pieces of the bible. Also its a shame that they have their children to help win their bigotry. They claim what they are doing is in the name of God, and for the children, but in truth its for their own pretty selves
The use of Leviticus to judge and condemn anyone today is ludicrous and absurd in the light of the total content of the book. To call the content of the Book of Leviticus the "word of God" and try to enforce any part of it today is without support in the teachings of Jesus and in the letters of Paul.
Jesus in Mark 7:18-23 chided his disciples for their lack of spiritual understanding. Jesus and his disciples had been condemned by the religious leaders because they did not wash and eat according to the Law. Jesus said, "Are you too so uncomprehending? Don't you see that whatever goes into your mouth from the outside cannot defile you; because it does not go into your heart, but into your stomach, and is eliminated? (Thus Jesus declared all foods clean."). And Jesus added, "That which proceeds from within you, out of your heart, defiles you. Evil thoughts, abusive sex acts, thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of coveting, wickedness, deceit, not caring, envy, slander, arrogance and foolishness: all of these evil things proceed from within and defile you."
Paul also rejected the absolute commands of Leviticus in Colossians 2:8-23, where he said, "If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, 'Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!' (which all refer to things destined to perish with the using) in accordance with human commandments and teachings? These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against human indulgence." (2:20-23). Paul declared in 2:14 that Jesus has "canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us which was hostile to us; and Jesus has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."
If Paul had intended to condemn homosexuals as the worst of all sinners, he certainly had the language skills to do a clearer job of it than emerges from Romans 1:26-27. The fact is that Paul nowhere condemned or mentioned romantic love and sexual relations between people of the same sex who love each other. Paul never commented on sexual orientation. As in the rest of the Bible, Paul nowhere even hinted that Lesbians and Gay men can or should change their sexual orientation.
So let show these bigots by starting to protest out in front of theirs churches, boycott all their bake sales, dinner drives and yard sales.
Below is a short of those who we need to start protesting:
NC4Marriage Endorsers
Statewide and Policy Organizations:
- Christian Action League
- The Civitas Institute
- The North Carolina Association of Christian Schools
- The North Carolina Family Policy Council
- Return America
National Organizations:
- Concerned Women for America
- Family Research Council
- Family Research Council Action
Denominational Leaders:
- The Board of Directors of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina
- The Council on Christian Life and Public Affairs of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina
- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh
- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte
Seminaries:
- Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Dr. Danny Aiken, President
- Southern Evangelical Seminary, Dr. Alex McFarland, President
- Daniel R. Heimbach, Professor of Christian Ethics,Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Individual Churches:
- Calvary Baptist Church—Winston-Salem, Pastor Steve Hardy, Missions Pastor
- Faith Free Will Baptist Church--Goldsboro, Dr. Dann Patrick, Senior Pastor
- First Baptist Church—Rocky Mount. Pastor Bill Grisham, Senior Pastor
- Lakeview Baptist Church--Hickory, Ben Rowe, Senior Pastor
- Solid Rock Ministry International—Raleigh, Bishop L. Foday Farrar, Senior Pastor
Very small group, I would have to guess two members of the Pflag group, three from Equality NC, and there were 13 others. While the meeting only last about an hour I must say it was informative. While some of the stories that Ms Rebecca Mann touch on was very moving. She explains in detail the postcard campaign and it's objective. This is as follow, "We're collecting postcards filled out by NC residents to drop off at your Legislator's Office, Lawmakers do respond to seeing thier constituents supporting this bill?"
To Rebecca, women’s rights are just common sense, but an abortion rights debate in seventh grade taught her that not everyone agrees. “I’m still waiting for logic to win,” she says. A self-proclaimed habitual volunteer, Rebecca is the state president of NOW and a member of North Carolina Women United and the Guilford Coalition on Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, in addition to her paying job as a community organizer for Equality North Carolina, which works to foster equal respect. Her short-term goals include working to elect quality officials, helping pass legislation that respects the rights of all people, achieving pay equity and increasing access to childcare and health care. Sounds daunting, but educating ourselves and others is a big step in the right direction. “I certainly don’t think you have to be a woman to be a feminist; you just have to be pushing for women’s rights, for human rights.”
