A Treatise:
What is right anymore? It seems that what is right in todays world isn’t based on any set standard. It seems that your right may be wrong to the next person. And that seems okay and even acceptable and a likeable solution to many. After all lets just let live and let live, right?
So that begs the current question facing Texans? Is Prop 2 right for Texas? Is it in the State’s interest and the People of Texas’ interest to define marriage as “in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman” Well, it seems we have as many answers as we have people in Texas. . . many see it from differing perspectives. Isn’t that the way of it?
So my thought begins what is it that makes right Right? Where do the boundry lines get drawn between what is simply irritating and what is criminally or morally abject filth?
What is our compass and or plumb line to discern the depths or the measuring stick to ascertain what is right in our society?
How flexible should the plumb line, compass or measuring stick be?
As I see it we have 3 choices on where we get our measuring stick:
A. Our Family, Mom, Dad, Step Parents, Grand parents, Aunts Uncles, Mom and Mom etc
B. Societies Laws: Texas and the United States have multitude thousands of laws and they have arisen from particular concerns and needs all their own along with the changing tides these have been modfied or re-interpreted through time, but they do Govern current legitimacy.
C. Our Faith.
Thoughts on each:
A. Parents and Family seem like a good start? I mean what better place to get the guidelines of Right and Wrong, after all they are the first arbitrators of such decisions?
B. Laws, well we all have to live by these so that seems like a good place to continue, I mean you gotta live within the law right? 🙂
C. Our Faith, well that seems like a reasonable thing to do your faith and beliefs must be based on something right? What does your faith teach, what are the foundation stones and principles, surely you can get good guidance here.
I think all three places are good to get your plumb line from to begin principles for living and move foward with a well balanced and meaningful life. I guess the question then becomes where does the plumb line come from that your family, our state and civil laws and our faith base the rules on?
Each one would be different? I mean surely. . . My family would depend on their parents and their faith to steer and guide them along with advice from friends and associates.
The Law is based on local and state needs along with our State and US Constitution then English Common Law and finally based upon Hammurabi and the Ten Commandments.
Faith:
The boundry line for my faith is the Word of God and the Spirit of the Living Lord guiding my heart from within.
So what does my faith, my family and civil law indicate about Prop 2 . . .Yes
Prop 2 doesn’t exist in a vacumn, it exists because things that are fundamental to the procreation of our species, and our nation are dependent upon certain fundamentals being established to protect the smallest and most innocent of new lives.
When Judges reinterpret law to grant rights and privelges never before granted, and usurp the common constrainst placed upon them by the people and the Legislature, then reactive measures must be taken, the Constitutional Amendments defining Marriage as what it already is the Union of a man and a woman for the protection and procreation of the nation and the species. This is the reaction to protect every state, which is necessary because our Constitution provides Equal Access under the law to every citizen of the United States no matter if they are from California, Washington, Texas or Massachussets. Without defining the and drafting Amendments, each State would be forced by Judicial fiat of one state to accept a new and destructive definition of marriage that is harmful and incremental to continuing the devastation and degradation of the Nuclear family.
