Random thoughts on a Tuesday

I had a case of the Mondays yesterday and just didn't feel like doing much. But now I am fired up about another interesting topic. As many of you know my younger brother just got married roughly 3 weeks ago so good luck to him and his new wife. But this brings me to my topic of marriage.
marriage is legally defined as a social, religious, spiritual, emotional, and or legal union of two individuals that creates kinship. Marriage is an institution in which interpersonal relationships are acknowledged by the state and a religious authority. Like it or not marriage has been performed by a religious institute for the last, oh I don't know....the beginning of biblical era to be socially correct. Those of you that know me, know that i am not the most religious person on the planet and know that i have my personal issues with the bible and some of the inaccuracies IE the earth being only 5000 years old give or take when C14 and other forms of radiodating and sciences tell us it is far older than that. But I digress, marriage is a union between a man and a woman. It is defined by the bible, which impacted every one of our lives in some form or fashion. Call me a homophobic idiot, but a marriage is between two people of different genders. It must stay that way. I understand that there are an ever increasing amount of homosexuals in the world and that they feel the need to get hitched to show the world who they love and that they are proud but marriage is not the correct way of doing such. People who are for gay marriage argue for equal rights and separation of church and state and here is my argument to them. You are guaranteed certain rights that are only bound to you by the Constitution of which marriage is not one of them. You are also to not be treated unequally by federal or state laws. Nobody is telling you that you cant go marry a person of the opposite gender so you have the same right as everybody else. shallow of me? quite possibly but you will live :). marriage is a religious act therefore the state/feds should not be doing anything about it, whether legalizing or illegalizing. The government needs to step in only when a constituional law is broken IE Arkansas not recognizing a gay marriage license from Vermont...Which is bound to happen if not by those two state but by others..I believe there are close to 15 states that have made it illegal and 7 that have it legal. What needs to happen is this. leave marriage alone and revamp the civil unions under federal law and allow heterosexual couples the choice to get married traditionally or by a civil union in order to keep separation of church and state valid. Leaving it up to the individuals what to do but giving them the same benefits as a traditional marriage. This way you dont get the crazy rightwing/leftwing extremists marrying pets, trees, cars, etc.