While we’re on the subject of who can marry who, let me raise another issue. Intersexual people. You know that there are really more than just two sexes? OMG! You didn’t! It’s true, so the marriage issue is even more complex that you knew. Intersexual people, born with characteristics of both male and female are a reality. This condition can range from subtle hormonal and chromosomal “a******lities” to outward physical signs that the person is not clearly male or female. Traditionally, the medical response has been to channel these unusual but real people into being a male or female. This has been done medically, psychologically and surgically . One problem is that we, and the medical community have a poor understanding of the consequences of this approach. There may be implications related to t***s-sexuality , g****r confusion and other mental health issues, as well as same sex attractions.
Now before I go on, it’s important that I say that I am in no way saying that gayness can or should be explained in biological terms. Gay and lesbian people should be afforded all of the rights and respect of “straight” people regardless of biology. The point is only that SOME same sex attractions MAY be related to intersexual issues. There is so much that we don’t understand.
Having said that, I want to call attention to the fact, that there is a growing community of intersexual people, who reject the societal insistence that they identify as either male or female. In addition, there is a movement within the medical and mental health fields that supports that view and no longer rush to find a medical or surgical “ cure “. Many now believe that there are as many as five different sexes-varying degrees of maleness and femaleness- and that those people should be allowed to be who and what they are without society putting a traditional g****r label on .
So, that brings us back to the marriage issue and who can marry who because, as the intersexual movement grows, this will surly come up. What will happen when an intersexual person, who refused to be pigeon holed into a traditional sexual category , wants to marry a male, or a female. What will happen when someone who is more male than female wants to marry someone who more female than male, but on some level they are of the same sex. You may laugh and ridicule this now, but mark my word, the issue will come up and it will have to be dealt with. I submit to you that the only solution is to allow any two people who want to marry each other to do so. What’s the big deal?

The Chardo,

Today Rush reported that a Methodist church in North Carolina had promised not to marry any more heterosexuals until homosexuals can be married. Now did the government force them to say that or did they just do it on their own.

Maybe I should check up on the churches in that city to determine which of them came out with that kind of talk. It sounds to me like that church has allowed some level of government to force them to move that direction.

I would surely be running from that church as fast as I could with things like this coming from them.

Old Man Roy, maybe, just maybe they did what they thought was right and just. HOW THE F*^*# did the government force the to do anything. You are getting stranger with everything you post.