There was an article in the local newspaper the other day about the ministers at the Norfolk Unitarian Church.
The newly arrived ministers at Unitarian Church of Norfolk are happy to officiate over the ceremonies where couples say, “I do.”
But when it comes to signing marriage licenses, the Revs. Phyllis L. Hubbell and John P. Manwell say, “We don’t.”
I thought about these ministers when I read the story of the Louisiana justice of the peace.
Bardwell said he asks everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed race couple. If they are, he does not marry them, he said.
And then there was Ben Smith’s article.
But when Bill de Blasio, a candidate for public office in New York City this fall, put his family in his campaign mailings and TV ads, there was nothing routine about it. De Blasio’s wife of 15 years, Chirlane McCray, is black, his children are of mixed race and, even in one of America’s most liberal cities, no one could remember anything like it.
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Gallup surveys indicate that only 48 percent of Americans approved of marriage between blacks and whites as recently as 1994, a number that had risen to 77 percent by 2007.
That we are still talking about interracial marriage some 42 years after the Loving case tells me that if we ever get gay marriage in the United States, it will be several generations before it is fully accepted.
And I’ll be long dead.
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Well, I applaud both the Unitarian ministers (at least they’ve found something to believe in), and the Louisiana Justice of the Peace. In both cases, if folks don’t like it, they can go somewhere else.
Will gay marriage be fully accepted in the United States? Well, they had it in the Roman Empire, and it wasn’t fully accepted there before the Empire decadence collapsed under the weight of the general decadence. I certainly hope it is not accepted here.
Mindless chatter Mouse! The sky is NOT falling! My gay marriage does not affect straight divorces…
Simply BS