Get the Government out of Marriage and Most Everything Else Too!

I was at dinner the other night and someone, knowing my penchant for history and religion, asked me about monogamy and why the Bible teaches only one man and one woman.  They were shocked when I said that many in the Bible had multiple spouses and concubines.  The New Testament, through Paul, encourages you to dedicate yourself to God and not take a mate, but to be married if you would be carried away by lust without a spouse.  Better to have someone to mate with than to try to be celibate if you are unable.  For most of human existence, marriage was ONLY a religious institution.  I have tried in vain so far to see where it crossed over into a governmental regulation.

Getting government involved in anything we don’t have to always results in a loss of liberty.  Marriage should remain a religious only ceremony.  If your religion prohibits same sex marriage, so be it.  If your religion, or lack thereof, allows it, so be it.  That is real freedom.  People like me that are right-wing Christian fundamentalists should avoid having the government get involved.  If they can force a system of beliefs on some, they will do it to us as well.  We need to let people live by their choices, that is why God gave us free will in the first place.  Neither side should fun to Big Government to limit freedoms of others.

If government wants to pay for birth control, they should not force Catholics to pay for it.  I personally disagree with Catholics, but I don’t want them to lose their freedoms.  If same sex couples want to get married by a willing person with the proper paperwork to marry them, so be it.  I don’t want them to lose their freedom either.  I don’t want the government to take away our guns, tell us who we can marry, how we can worship, who we can hire, what we can pay them, what light bulbs we can buy, how much our toilet can flush, when we can use a fireplace, or a million other invasive things they do now.

We are the frogs in the pot, with the temperature slowly rising and we do not jump out before we are cooked.  When will we stop fighting through government to limit others, and wake-up and fight together to limit government power?  We need to return to a government OF the people, BY the people, FOR the people.  I have faith in my fellow men and women that we can live our lives the way we wish without a nanny government deciding everything for us.

I am for freedom, personal liberty, and your ability to make your own choices, whether I agree with them or not.  I want the same in return.  Neither of us will get it if a nameless, faceless bureaucrat decides for us.