One Last Thing For the Night

A little rant if you will. I have a problem with people who complain about losing our constitutional rights in this country while they at the same time bother to care about homosexuals marrying. To be fair, I could care less if homosexuals have access to the same contracts as straight people (government sanctioned marriage is nothing more than a contractual arrangement). The point is, how can you complain about losing your rights while denying others the same right? The fact is that we are losing our Constitutional rights because people are too focused on garbage and non-issues.

The only secular reason for believing in governmental authority is the social contract, the idea that we all agree on certain basic rights and fundamentals. For those who claim that our government or any government is God blessed, guess again. The bible says that we are to obey our leaders and that Satan is the leader of the world working through princes and principalities.

I have issue with control and controlling others. I don't have a problem with leadership or being in a leadership position. I don't believe in manipulating people, I believe in seeing to it that if you do the wrong thing, you pay consequences and I believe this should be understood by others. The issue has always been how much should the government be involved in our private lives, how much we should regulate one another. As much as you believe you have the right to regulate others personal relationships determines how much your choices should be regulated by the government. If you regulate homosexuality, do you not also agree to have your actions (or religious practices) regulated.

Having said all of that, I would not conduct a gay marriage in a religious service. I should have that right, the right to making my choices. If you are gay and believe that you should have the right to get married, then you would believe that I should have the right to not be involved. The issue should be rights and not restrictions or regulation. The best government is the one that is there to prevent you from doing things that you should not and the worst government is the one that is there to force you to do what it believes you should, that is tyranny.

I don't react well to people imposing their will on me and therefore I don't try and impost my will on others. Maybe we should stop trying to regulate personal relations which are not controlling or abusive. Maybe we should stop trying to regulate everything parents do to teach their children. Lets face it, we are polarized over issues related to regulating each other rather than finding where we don't need to regulate each other.