The people of Missouri have rejected homosexual “marriage.” Great Thursday news.
Massachusetts was the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, and on Tuesday, Missouri became the first state since then to pass a constitutional amendment banning it.
While judges made the decision in Massachusetts earlier this year, voters made the decision in Missouri on Tuesday.
Around 71 percent of voters approved the constitutional amendment, which says, “to be valid and recognized in this state, a marriage shall exist only between a man and a woman.”
According to press reports, at least nine other states — maybe more — will vote on similar constitutional amendments before the year is over.
The Washington Times reports that with 51 percent of precincts reporting, the amendment received 659,267 “yes” votes and 251,754 “no” votes.
I blogged about this last month (I link to previous posts for the benefit of new readers) in a post called “The Nationalization of Marriage.”:
Homosexuals currently enjoy the same civil rights as the rest of us, but marriage is not a civil right. Homosexual “marriage” has never been a civil right in America or any civilized society. Restrictions are placed on who can marry whom. Minors can’t consent to marriage. A person can’t marry someone else while they’re married. You can’t marry your dog or cat. And a man can’t marry a man, and a woman can’t marry a woman.Homosexuals can form all the unions they want, with several different people if they desire. Who cares? But what they really want is not traditional marriage but something unrelated to it. I believe their true purpose is merely to shock and mock traditional-minded and God-fearing folks and parade in public what should be kept private….
A frightening consequence of legalizing so-called same-sex marriage is that perverts will have another reason to prey on children. Joe over at Evangelical Outpost blogged about this back in March. Boys as young as 14 can marry with parental consent. I’m certain that plenty of shiftless and immoral parents would…I don’t even want to think about it! The deviants at the North American Man/Boy Love Association would be ecstatic.
God forbid it.
The only way marriage in America will be redefined is by judicial fiat and not the democratic process.
