Gay marriage and then what

So the Supremes let stand the appeals court decisions about gay marriage, meaning it stays a state issue.  However, the upshot was that states with a gay marriage ban (over 30 of us) can’t say there can’t be gay marriage.  But since the state supremes and others rule that gay marriage is the imputed law now, we MUST have gay marriage.  Evidently you can no longer choose tolerance—“I don’t agree with you but go ahead and live your own life.”  Instead we MUST agree to gay marriage. And thus Appeals Court Judge Wiseman here in OK performed the marriage of the first two lesbians.  To not do this "would have been cowardly," she said.  Am I hearing this right? I always thought courageous stands were to do what you believed right, not to follow the crowd or notion of the moment.

And to me, the courage is to follow what my Lord, Savior and best friend, Jesus, said in Matthew 19 about marriage and what God said in Leviticus 18.  So why didn’t the Judge just say, “why don’t you guys find a Unitarian preacher or some other person to do this.” 

Okay, so do you have to perform gay sex to have one of these same gender marriages?  Can two brothers say they just want the tax advantages and thus get married?  Can three sisters?  Two women and a dog? You see where this is headed is that we no longer have a definition of marriage.  Is it love?  I love my boat! Is it just two people?  Those Mormons who hide in Utah canyons are cheering. Perhaps since boats and corporations can have personhood under the law, we could just marry all the ships in Carnival Cruises.  The bottom line is that we used to have a definition of marriage as two people, one man and one woman (recognizing that it was instituted to procreate) , mutual consent, and unrelated (recognizing that we don’t want inbred kids) and of legal age (to avoid child abuse).  But if all this goes out the window, we have nothing that really amounts to a marriage at all.  Which of course, is about where we are de facto with all the kids who have no dads.   America is slipping over the cliff and the people are just going to the mall or watching football.

Worse still, is what happens when the government imposes religion on us.  If a gay guy gets insurance with a family plan so his partner has coverage, does that have to be honored?  If so, does it have to be honored, contrary to beliefs, when my church carries the insurance?  I once thought the first amendment protected against such things being rammed down our throat.    Worse still is the silence of the churches on politics, who dare not offend members (contributors!) who are carnal Christians and think loosely about how we should support all the gay folks by agreeing with them. 

Why aren’t we in the middle of what could be called a faith war?  There certainly is a War on Faith.