Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when.....

...we let politics and religion mix.
Here is an article from the New York Time about same-sex marriage/civil union divorce, about how it can become a tangled web when they move out of the state that they got hitched in.
One paragraph that caught my attention was....

The dispute between Vermont and Virginia involves the dissolution of a union between women raising a daughter together. They had moved to Vermont from Virginia, and when they split up the Vermont courts awarded visitation rights to the non-biological mother. The biological mother had moved back to Virginia and filed for full custody there. Although states are expected to honor each other’s custody rulings, the Virginia court, citing the state’s ban on recognizing same-sex unions, granted the biological mother’s request. The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that Vermont had sole jurisdiction and demanded, in essence, that Virginia stay out of it.


Why can’t we just keep religion out of politics, we cannot control who we fall in love with any more than we can control the colors of our eyes or how tall we are. I think that government should not be in the marriage business, that all “marriages” should be Civil Unions and let the churches marry those they want to marry.
Marriage is more than having children, here in Connecticut the Civil Union laws granted something like 1200 legal rights to Civil Unions. Does like sound like marriage is just to have more kids?

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