We Could Call It The Church of the Everlasting Fleshpopsicle*

So, Friday’s post got me thinking over the weekend and I believe that I may stumbled on to a way to solve the whole ‘Same Sex Marriage’ issue. Or at the very least, a new legal strategy in favor of it.

Start new churches.

Make them exactly like the current religions du jour - be it Catholicism, Judaism, Baptism, etc – just make allowances for gay marriages. (Just avoid Voodooism and Satanism, the homosexuals get enough bad press as it is.)

Keep all the other more popular moral decrees, but make same sex marriage part of the religion. Better yet, make it a sacrament.

Thus, when told that marriage is wrong by your government official, cry religious persecution and point to the first amendment.

I realize that there must be a flaw in my thinking – especially given the illegality of polygamy. However, I would want to see the argument be made nonetheless. By Constitutional scholars rather than deluded bloggers like myself.

Marriage, first and foremost, is a social institution. That’s what came first, the institution not the sacrament. The two can exist separately from one another, just like how Church and State are supposed to exist.

Plus, with all these new religions popping, we can get some additional religious holidays added to the calendar. For the example, the Church of Madden** could get the Monday after the Super Bowl declared a holiday.

And if you have the football fans behind the cause of same sex unions, what other bridges are there to cross?

(I promise to make the next post less preachy and a little more comical.)

wojr

* Please note that the Church of the Everlasting Fleshpopsicle is no way affiliated with the Church of the Everlasting Gobstopper, the Church of the Perpetual Wojr or the Church of Magnanimous Luminescence and Gentrification.

** Yes, the Church of Madden would worship either a statue of Brett Favre or a Turkey Leg.

Labels: Religion, Snide Remarks

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