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The one thing this “Ground Zero Mosque” crap has shown us, is freedom of religion in the United States is pretty much skin deep. I have said for many years Atheists should be careful about what they say and how they approach Christians. The fact is Christians out number all other religions and Atheists combined by something like 10 to 1. If the Christians in this country got it in their heads to purge the heathens, we’d all be done for.

Michael Enright, I believe is just the first of many in the coming years to take out his anger and fear on innocent people of other religions. It remains to be seen if he will be punished and how harshly for his crime. The question the prosecutor has to ask himself, is how to keep sympathetic Christians off the jury, is that even possible with a population made up primarily of Christians ? If you think the religion of the jury should not matter, let me ask you this question, should his jury be made up entirely of Muslims ? I suspect I know your answer.

Cross Posted from blog.carnifex.org

Thankfully California’s Amendment to their constitution which banned same sex marriage has been overturned. It was overturned for the reason I suspected it would be, it fails equal protection. This thing will be dragged out for another couple of years, but for now, the good guys are winning. My opinion on this subject is fairly simple. Either marriage is a right or it is a privilege  bestowed by the government.

If marriage is a privilege bestowed by the government then we need to change some laws in this country. First, I think we need to bar violent felons from marrying, especially those convicted of rape, child abuse, child neglect and spouse abuse. While we are at it, lets ban prison marriages as well. Next lets institute a three strikes you out ban, lets face it, if you have been involved in three failed marriages, it is your fault and your wasting everyones time so you don’t get to do it again. Next lets set a hard age limit on marriage to 18, no more “Parental Consent” bullshit and while we are picking on the deep south, I think first cousins is not enough genetic variance, lets make it 2nd or even 3rd cousins. I would also like to institute a minimum seven day waiting period between getting a marriage license and actually getting married, I know this would destroy a whole industry in Las Vegas, but seriously if you love each other, you can wait a week. Finally, since this government is the sole arbitrator of legal marriage, we need to take the ability to marry couple away from religion. Oh they can still do their little ceremony to get the blessing of whatever deity they pray to, but the couple will not be legally married until they appear before the appropriate government bureaucrat and sign the appropriate paper work in triplicate. This way we can ensure no one is breaking any of the new rules.

On the other hand, If marriage is a right, then the government has no right to interfere with marriage as an institution other than for public safety reasons. This is the position I take. I believe anyone two consenting adults with enough genetic variance, have the right to marry. It really is that simple, that easy. To all of you suffering from advanced homophobia out there, finding “Teh gay icky” is not a public safety issue.