A few thoughts on gay marriage. For those of you who aren't aware, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that denying marriage licenses to homosexual couples is against the state's constitution. In addition, San Francisco has started to issue marriage licenses to gay couples in direct violation of Proposition 22, which limited marriage to a man and a woman in California. The proposition had passed in 2000 with 61% of the vote.

The American people are just starting to realize that our marriage laws were meant for another time. Why does the government issue marriage licenses at all? This is patently ridiculous in a society that is not completely in agreement that marriage is the only morally acceptable choice. The proper compromise in this case with gay marriage is to put marriage back where it has always belonged: in the religious sphere. The religious sphere and the state sphere are only the same in a theocracy, and we are certainly not a theocracy. This would allow both sides of the homosexual marriage debate to win. Discrimination against homosexuals is eliminated, and religious right can protect the sanctity of marriage in their churches.

I predict this compromise would satisfy 80-90% of the people in America. The only people that would be unhappy would be the right-wing Nazi bigots, and the left-wing activists that want nothing less than a law making everyone hold hands and sing happy songs about gay people.

I am opposed to homosexual marriage because I think that it is against natural law, but I don't think that the government has any right to get involved in it. This is yet another example of the government exceeding their Constitutional rights, and restricting ours.