Op-ed:

Call it anything, just don’t call it marriage

By: Diane Sori

According to the dictionary, marriage is the social institution under which a man and woman establish their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments, religious ceremonies, etc.

According to Barack Hussein Obama marriage is now a free for all where anyone can marry anyone of either sex because he’s made it politically correct to do so, and because it will get him some much needed votes come November...or so he thinks.

Add to that the fact that the NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) recently jumped on Obama’s pro-gay marriage bandwagon also.  They recently passed a resolution supporting gay marriage saying to do otherwise would ‘seek to codify discrimination or hatred into the law or to remove the constitutional rights of LGBT citizens.’

“The NAACP’s support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the 14^th Amendment of the US Constitution and equal protection of all people,” said Benjamin Todd, CEO of the NAACP.

Last time I checked, marriage of any kind was NOT mentioned in the Constitution at all.

The 14^th Amendment under the Equal Protection Clause (of which Mr. Todd was referring) requires that each state provide equal protection under the law to all people within its jurisdiction..."full and equal benefit of all laws"...but he and others forget that the institution of marriage is not a law, it’s a choice freely made, and besides the word marriage nor its definition appears nowhere in this Amendment or in any others.

Though I wholeheartedly understand why committed gay couples want to ‘marry’ so to speak, as they want basically what we want...stability in family life, survivor's rights, joint medical benefits, etc., and while I truly believe that committed couples should be entitled to all those things, I do NOT believe the term ‘marriage’ is necessary for those couples to attain those rights.

Gay partnerships, which would include all the rights afforded to heterosexual couples, can be called Civil Unions, Domestic Partnerships, Spousal Affirmation, whatever...it just should NOT be called ‘marriage’ as the definition of marriage has never changed or wavered since the days of the Bible and remember, nowhere in our Constitution is the word ‘marriage defined or even used.

To change our Constitution to placate a minority, any minority, just for votes is wrong and this is what Barack Hussein Obama proposes to do.  While we have rightly amended the Constitution on important matters concerning critical civil rights issues and such, amending the Constitution to appease the country’s gay minority, who can attain the very rights they desperately want through other avenues and channels besides using such a polarizing word as ‘marriage,’ is just plain wrong and unnecessary.  

I’m also surprised that the gay community hasn’t recognized that they are being used, and that once their usefulness is over that they will be thrown under the bus just like Obama does to everyone else.

The role of good government is to protect and serve its citizenry NOT to get involved in personal matters.  The issue of gay marriage is indeed personal, and as such should not be put on public display by this man, for the price that will be paid in more heated condemnation of the gay lifestyle will not be worth what Barack Hussein Obama will have put them through just so he can get their votes.