Lessons I learn

Well, the people of Maine have spoken and the law allowing same sex marriages was tossed out.  There is a kind of bright spot, the constitution of Maine doesn’t permit human rights issues to go to referendum, for if it did, we would still be very much segragated.  The hope is that the Supreme Court of Maine will see this and knock the referendum question as unconstitutional.  They could then pass an ammendment, but that may be tougher. 

They did relax, way more than California has, the use of medical marijuana, they are setting up State owned marijuana pharmacies
and they have added to the list of what it can be used for, also passing what California has done. 

But they won’t let two people in love get married.      


There is a very grass roots (is that one word?) movement, growing fast and nationally, that would propose an amendment baning the right of non-elected or non-governmental people, most likely appointed to the position , such as various state or local government people to perform a civil union.  In this plan, everyone would need to be in a civil union to get the exact same rights, state by state, as what we call marriage at this time.

Some of the “clergy” who can handle this massive and financial responsibility to the state and the national government are not even citizens of this country, and they have more power than a regular citizen. 

It would work just like divorce works, you haav to go the government and its rules to get a divorce and work out many things, including custody issues.

If marriage is the province of the religious and the clergy, then why don’t they have the power to handle a divorce?  And, why can a man and a woman, go out of state and into Las Vegas or Northern Maryland and get married within a hour by a justice of the peace.

If it is a truly spiritual event, then it doesn’t need the government to be in that part of it.  The two people can still get “married,” with all of its spiritual connotations. 

This way, the state, as laid out in the Constitution and a number of the amendments could stay out of the marriage business and handle the civil union part.  If Congress took a long look at how much all of this is costing them, they would pull out immediately.  Divorce is a legal issue, and, for some a spiritual issue.  But, to get a divorce one must go to the government, why not the church that married them?  So, they would be divorced as far as the the governments are concerned.  They would have to handle the spiritual part on their own, if they even wanted to since it would not be required.

So, civil union, which has the legal rights of what was called marriage, would be performed for those wanting the binding relationship and the tax perks that go with it; and marriage would be the duty of the couples church of their choice, allowing the church leader the power to perform the marriage or decide the couple is not ready.  Yet, they would still be in what we now call marriage. 

That is the only way we will get this to work and it will change one way or another.

I so hope and pray that this happens.  The country should not be in the marriage, a religious act, as they are now.  They should handle the spiritual portion of it.  For some, that would be enough, just their church, though the government would see them as single, as they do now to gay men and woman who have been in a loving and strong marriage for 15 year, 25 years, whatever.  They can get married via a church, but that clegy does not have the same rights of the other clergy.  So the government is deciding which religion is better for the people.

We have come far, and have so much farther to go.  But, thing will change.  They will have to, or this grand experiment of a Republic Democratic Center Government will fail.  Trust me, their are many ways that we may fail.