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A Maryland Court Backs Standard Marriage

Posted by: From Arkansas in Commentary, Family stuff on Sep 23 2007

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The highest court of Appeals in Maryland has overturned a lower court ruling that allowed homosexuals to marry and upheld the 1973 law concerning a marriage of one man and one woman as being valid. Four of the judges said that the law about equal rights did not include sexual orientation. They agreed that sexual orientation was not an “immutable characteristic” of the law in defining equal rights while race did do that.

Meanwhile, eight states have put the constitutional amendment concerning the definition of marriage on the ballot for the voters to see on Tuesday when they go to vote. Several of the states are certain to pass the amendment but three of the states may win on the amendment by only a slim margin if they pass it at all.

In Arizona, there is a huge fight going on about this issue. While the polls show that it will be a win by a slim margin, there is a group called Arizona Together that is going up against the amendment as hard as the proponents are defending it.

Marriage is defined as one woman and one man. People have, for years, tried to change that idea but it has lasted as long as the Bible has lasted. Even in the Bible, there were those who did not go according to the rules. However, the sanctity of marriage is one woman and one man as defined in the book of Genesis. That does not include those who are of the same sex. It would be a gross travesty to allow this and therefore, I back the amendment that will allow only one man and one woman to call a marriage.

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