It's God's fault.
BEAUPREZ: We celebrate the fact that we were all created equal by our Creator — equal, but different, and for a purpose. He showed us that purpose in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve.
GINGREY: This is all about marriage that results, or potentially can result, in the procreation of children. And this is what our Constitution has implied for 223 years, and indeed, what the word of God has implied for 2,000 years.
PENCE: I believe first, though, marriage should be protected because it wasn’t our idea. Several millennia ago, the words were written that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and the two should become one flesh. It wasn’t our idea. It was God’s idea.
GINGREY: But I do know a little bit about the sacrament of marriage, Mr. Speaker, as one of about 200 Catholic members of the United States Congress. And I think God has spoken very clearly, very clearly, on this issue.CARTER: The reality is, marriage has always been a union between a man and a woman. Now in China, they might say a civil union. In Rome they might say a church union. But it’s always been a union between a man and a woman. In my faith, I believe it’s part of God’s plan for the future of mankind.
BEAUPREZ: And marriage since the beginning of time, as close as I can tell, has been between a man and a woman. And if it was indeed good enough for our Creator and it was indeed our Creator’s plan that we were created different for an absolute divine purpose, I think we best not be missing with His plan today.
The emphases are mine. And by the way, the Constitution doesn't say one word about marriage. It does, however, mention something about "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, nor of prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
Seems to me that invoking God to justify legislation seems a little...unConstitutional. Especially when the legislation is discriminatory.
But hey, what do I know?
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