Posted On: October 26, 2006, 3:12 pm CDT

Posted By: Bruce

Religion has no part in government? "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." -John Jay, First Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and co-author of the Federalist Papers, letter to Jedidiah Morse, 28 Feb 1797.

"Christianity becomes not merely an auxiliary, but a guide, to the law of nature; establishing its conclusions, removing its doubts, and evaluating its precepts." -Joseph Story, "The Value and Importance of Legal Studies," a lecture delivered August 25, 1829 at his inauguration as Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University, cited in James McClellan, Joseph Story and the American Constitution (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1971), p. 66.

"Different religions, and/or beliefs are not bad, immoral, or corrupt they are just different." So then, everything's permitted. Once everything is permitted, then anything can be made mandatory.

You whine about "church and state," as if the man/woman marriage that has existed for the whole of recorded history is the result of any-sodomist bigotry, but have no qualms about one court overturning the most fundamental of human institutions.

At any rate, sodomists do not get married much in the European countries that have allowed it for years because they cannot control their promiscuous impulses, and see no reason to be tied to only one mate. The average homo has had hundreds of partners by the time he is thirty. Not even randy straight men are this incautious.

So "gay marriage" in NJ is not going to amount to much. Evil social movements have come and gone and left little lasting imprint.