Justice and natural law allow the people in our society to enjoy certain rights — such as life and liberty — which we would not be able to enjoy in a political state with its pro-tyrrany laws and totalitarian rule.

I always noted to myself the difference that Colson’s ministry made with the inmates from those ministries that were from a more Charismatic/TBN type background. The Colson ministry was less glam and glitz and more real soul searching. Colson’s group wasn’t as popular as the other groups who came in, but the fruit was more apparent in the lives of the inmates.

I remember what finally did it for me was the day I walked up to a local Orthodox Church and the car parked at the very front, where every person who would be entering the Church could see it, the car had this bumper sticker that was big as a billboard that read “Pro-God, Pro-Family & Pro-Choice.”

The rest, as they say, is history.

The fact is that there is no incentive for these people to work, because they can be supported by economic and other benefits from the government. Consequently, they refuse to work.

If the government ended its benefits to these freeloaders, you can be sure that they would get a job to support themselves.

Here is a reality check, they won’t be there on Friday either and the media won’t report it anyway. But, just to give you a heads up, there is this new invention called the “internet”. It has a new media and people can shoot their own videos and share them across what we call “social media”. You no longer have to rely on NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, HLN, MSNBC or FOX to know what is going on.

Not if they are siblings, or if it’s a mother and son, or a step mother, or if either of them is under 18, or already married to someone else. So your statement is wrong, we don’t just give a license to any old couple that could potentially procreate. We only give it to couples that we approve of procreating, or I should clarify, we only give it to relationship types that we approve, or actually, that we don’t prohibit, to procreate offspring together.

Come on there were lots of ways to get and transfer property besides marrying someone! What marriage did was say these two people will have sex together and bear children together, and the property stuff flowed from that. The property went to the person you had children with. Or actually, when you married, you became one person with one estate, and the spouse that lived longer didn’t inherit the state, they just continued to own it, as they had since they married each other.

And same-sex couples should not be allowed to attempt to conceive offspring together using their own genes, however it might be attempted. People should only be created by joining a man and a woman’s unmodified genes. A married man and woman, preferably, but my proposal doesn’t prohibit unmarried conception or donor sperm or anything that is currently done, it only prohibits stuff that hasn’t been done. Because you are right, there would be too many things to regulate if we let people start making babies from modified gametes or synthesized DNA or whatever they wanted to.

Marriage was never focused on having children. It was always about a way to transfer property. Go back as far as you can into the history of marriage. It was a way to join two families together in order for both families to get something they wanted. It was a way for the man to gain more property. Children solidified the marriage but they were not the reason for it. Don’t even let me bring up polygamy, which was the norm all throughout the bible.

Now, let’s move forward into the recent past, where marriage, especially in the U.S., has become about finding your soul mate. I seriously doubt that any couple thinking about marriage look at each other and say “Boy, what great kids we’re going to make together.” No, couples start out being attracted to each other, they become friends, and then they realize that friendship has turned into something more. They think about how great it would be to spend the rest of their lives with this person. Having children is a small part of the thought process, not the overwhelming driving force.

When you decide to make procreation the reason for marriage, then you have to decide what to do with those marriages that do not produce children, or those marriages that occur long after child-bearing age is done and over with. Do we allow those marraiges to continue?

Too many things to regulate when it’s easier to just say Marriage is between two people who are sane and of the age to give legal consent. Too bad so many want to bring things into it that have no validity there.

I think we need to establish that marriage is about the right to procreate offspring together using the couple’s own genes. And then we need to establish that people only have a right to procreate by combining their natural gametes with someone’s of the opposite sex. Those should be federal laws.

Don’t hold it on a Saturday when most people can show up.

It’s like people just want to fail.

Well, that was my thought; I put the word in quotes for that very reason.

But as I said, as long as he keeps giving them money, they don’t care.

Which reminds me. I got my $100 back yesterday. It came with MY letter to them — but with no response from Mr. Triantafilou or his “delegate” (Rada Tierney). Nothing at all.

What a mistake. Mistake upon mistake.

As much as I have felt proud of them in the past and sent them money every year, they’ve really lost my “heart”, if I can say it that way. I’ll give to OCMC and FOCUS instead, in fact, OCMC is getting the $100…