Same-Sex Marriage & Nullification in Alabama | National Catholic Reporter

Same-Sex Marriage & Nullification in Alabama | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The interesting thing about nullification is that it is currently more about legal marijuana and recreational marijuana than same sex marriage.  The President, a constiutional scholar, has essentially agreed that states have the right to the drug laws of their choosing and will not counter-enforce where pot has been made illegal.  I am hard pressed to see Alabama joining the movement to nullify federal pot laws.  Indeed, they like the things and will over-enforce them on black men and boys all day and everyday (not so much with the Beaureguards who like to toke) because they are operating on group malice, not principle.  That is what is happening when they burn Catholic Churches because they think the Pope is the anti-Christ, put the Ten Commandments up out of Christian identity, not any desire to follow them or vow to resist providing marriage licenses to gays and lesbians.



Let us not, however, glorify them as trail blaizers against gay marriage.  That would be the Catholic Church.  This whole thing started because hospitals (Catholic ones) denied the obvious rights of long time companions to be counted as next of kin and recognized the rights of families, often estranged families, to exclude one who was essentially a husband in hopes the sibling or child would have a death bed conversion.  If you think a death bed conversion for loving someone is necessary, your God is an Ogre.  The National Organizatiton for Marriage seems to have kept that theme going in opposing case after case of legal challenge to laws "protecting marriage" or votes to simply recognize the right.  Luckily, federal judges don't consider their view of God in making decisions and stick to the law - and the law is obvious.  Analogies to the state of marriage where no fault divorce reigns do not really hit - and neither do references to scripture, which often ignore the fact that Jesus said that when a couple  marries, they sever ties with their parents and become one flesh.



I suspect that if Alabama wants to lose money, it may resist and invite federal litigation.  I further suspect that when no one is looking, Alabama court clerks will smile and give those cute young  gay Beauregard coupoles a marriage license and  hug (maybe not so much for the interracial pair of lesbians).  The Church, however, will have none of it - either for its employees (while ignoring the fact that hetero employees with a civil marriage are in the same kind of sin) and for the children of its members who want their unions blessed.  The Court will likely decide the civil rights of Catholic Church employees but it is the families of gay couples who must insist on marital rights (including funerals) for its gay children, parents and siblings.  How sad.  Don't blame the Beaureguards.  I am from Texas and grew up with a few.  The villilan in this picture is the Church.