ArchivedHomosexuality: QuestionsThe Federal tax laws are very complicated and under current law married individuals pay a tax penalty. If President Bush’s tax reforms are enacted this penalty will be phased out, so that argument does not hold water. The U.S. Constitution does not prohibit interracial marriage since marriage laws are under the control of each State. So this argument does not make sense either. Also the Bible does not prohibit interracial marriage and it does call same gender sexual relations sin as well as calling any sexual relationship outside of marriage a sin. Many try to use Paul’s admonition to “not be unequally yoked” to refer to interracial marriage when in reality he is addressing marriages outside our faith. There are several examples of interracial marriage in Scripture - Moses and an unnamed Ethiopian woman, Boaz and Ruth, Salmon and Rahab – Ruth and Rahab are in Christ’s genealogy and are not ethnic Hebrews. Gay activists and gay supporters see gay marriage as a civil rights issue since they claim homosexuality is genetic, however there is no empirical evidence to support this claim. Others (and not all of whom are Christian) see this as a morality issue. No culture or society (with a couple of exceptions, Thebes in ancient Greece and then only for the military and a few Native American tribes who viewed the extremely rare male with homosexual orientation as a blessing from the gods) has every accepted, promoted, or legalized gay unions in the history of the world. Gay activists are attempting to redefine millennia of cultural mores. I find it interesting that the 14th amendment does exclude non-tax paying Native Americans from it provisions and actually supports prejudice. It also makes provision for the exclusion of disenfranchised adult males in determining the number of Representatives of each State since State laws were what determined eligible voters. |
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