on the rim

A somewhat lengthy post.  While I have used this space to address positions of faith, and this issue may be political, it has a direct bearing on faith, and religion. Words used to have meaning. Laws used to have force.  When you have thousands of pages of regulations, where no individual can know all the laws, thus quite possibly breaking some law or other, the law isn't the problem, it is the selective enforcement that becomes the law.  What does this have to do with marriage?  And where did that just come from?  Everything.   The current status of marriage in the United States, is this; federal and state courts nationwide are overturning the will of the people and ruling that bans against same sex marriage are unconstitutional, that by not allowing marriage between same sex partners violates their civil rights.  While some states are protected, at least for a period of time, by courts recognizing that states, and their citizens can determine t...