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On Gays and Marriage

In a constitional democracy such as ours, where there is no established state religion, government has no business sanctifying or endorsing marriages of any kind, between any people, straight or gay. A few centuries back, governments got involved in marrying people as a "secular substitute" for religious authorities in order to break the stranglehold of the early church's authority.

If governments are involved in marrying people, it is merely a practical choice of the couple involved. The government does not create the marriage.

Marriage is between two souls. It does not involve government. It does not primarily involve religions. It is between the two souls, each other, and “God” according to their conscience (in our blessed country that is). If a justice-of-the peace “marries” a couple, they are merely performing the ceremony for the purpose of publicly-recognizing the marriage, but this public recognition is not the basis of the marriage.

Government cannot interfere in the conscience of a person, including their sense of their own self, or the sharing of their God-given soul-body with another. It is beyond the jurisdiction of our kind of government to do so.

Issues surrounding artificial insemination and other reproductive technologies are separate issues which must be separately examined. They are the same issues for straight couples as for gay couples, and are complex and serious matters which impact on the planet. Do you realize that?” ¶

On Evolution

“Evolution of the physical body is a proven fact of science. There is no doubt that there is evolution of the body. The only doubt is the exact mechanism by which it takes place.
But, when evolutionary-thinking is misused, it can create a very dangerous situation for human beings and our society. And here the excessive views of certain fundamentalists are a necessary balance for the excessive views of certain atheist-evolutionists.

Yet, the truth includes both and is beyond both.
If all we are, is a physical body, evolving, then, the sanctity of human conscience, the human soul, including all generally-agreed-upon principles of morality, is not at all clear.

Whether you like it or not, our entire democratic system was developed from Enlightenment Philosophy which was God-based. Because each individual had a direct-relationship with God, with no mediation or government or religion, the conscience of each and every individual was sanctified ‘on the order of God’. This has nothing to do with the establishment of a state-church, which is forbidden by the Constitution. But to deny that it is a religious-principle is ridiculous.

It is the misuse of evolutionary thinking that causes the problem. Evolution is not a religion; when people treat it that way, it becomes a false god. Basing a political philosophy upon a false god is very, very dangerous.

So, even if evolution is true (which it is undoubtedly true), it is not the truth of
evolution that is the problem. The problem is that evolutionary-theory is incomplete. It is merely-science. And does not include other aspects, spiritual aspects, of human life. ¶