[Vision2020] Re: Constitutional Ban on Gay Marriage

[Ralph Nielsen]

	Doug Wilson doesn't seem to want to recognize the difference between 
church and state, so he gives us a homily about hypocrisy and sin 
instead of recognizing that marriage, as far as the state is concerned, 
is not a sacred institution, but a secular legal contract binding on 
the two parties concerned. He illogically equates monogamy with 
polygamy and, even more illogically, pretends that polygamy is a matter 
of how many people can physically fit into a bedroom.
	Doug concludes his diatribe by equating marriage laws with building 
codes. Anyone who hasn't been indoctrinated with Wilsonian "logic" can 
readily observe how totally illogical he is.
	Ralph Nielsen

On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 08:31 AM, vision2020-request@moscow.com 
wrote:

>
> From: Douglas <dougwils@moscow.com>
> Date: Fri Aug 1, 2003  8:48:50 AM US/Pacific
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Constitutional Ban on Gay Marriage
>
>
> Visionaries,
>
> There is an important difference between sexual hypocrisy, which our 
> nation has in spades, and which practices privately what it condemns 
> publicly, and the tragic way of removing that hypocrisy, which is to 
> bring yourself to approve the sin formally. Hypocrisy is the tribute 
> that vice pays to virtue, and we always need to remember there are two 
> ways to get out of a double standard. One is to repent of the sin, and 
> the other is to drop the pretence of virtue. We are in the course of 
> pursuing the latter, and it will not bring enlightenment.
>
> If it is true that marriage is nothing more than a "tax break," and is 
> no longer a sacred institution, then we are not just talking about 
> homosexual unions. We are also talking about polygamy, as long as more 
> than two can physically fit into the privacy of the bedroom. What kind 
> of sexual unions will have to be permitted as soon as the courts learn 
> the rudiments of logic? He who says A must say B.
>
> And while we are on the subject of keeping the government out of the 
> bedroom, why is it, when I built my house, the government wanted to 
> tell me how far apart the sheetrock screws had to be in the bedroom, 
> how the electric outlets had to be placed, how big the windows had to 
> be, and so on, ad nauseam. Government out of the bedroom, aye.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Douglas