Just posing this....
My immediate concern about the SCOTUS opinion on gay marriage, and the fervor over gay rights in general, is that a bunch of people will jump into "marriage", caught up in the euphoria of "we won" to "make a statement".
As a Pastor who has performed over 200 weddings, I have counseled every one of those couples prior to marriage concerning their expectations, commitment, etc.... My concern was often that a hasty marriage based on "love" (in many cases, lust, or physical attraction) could produce children who would be greatly harmed when the couple discovered they "fell in love", but weren't "in love". (And I have, on more than a few occasions, declined to marry heterosexual couples based on the premarital counseling)
Now it has been made incredibly easy (or the process has begun) for gay couples to "get married" - there will no doubt be children adopted into many of these "marriages", and I have to wonder about the welfare of these children when the "new" wears off and the euphoria evaporates.
My immediate concern about the SCOTUS opinion on gay marriage, and the fervor over gay rights in general, is that a bunch of people will jump into "marriage", caught up in the euphoria of "we won" to "make a statement".
As a Pastor who has performed over 200 weddings, I have counseled every one of those couples prior to marriage concerning their expectations, commitment, etc.... My concern was often that a hasty marriage based on "love" (in many cases, lust, or physical attraction) could produce children who would be greatly harmed when the couple discovered they "fell in love", but weren't "in love". (And I have, on more than a few occasions, declined to marry heterosexual couples based on the premarital counseling)
Now it has been made incredibly easy (or the process has begun) for gay couples to "get married" - there will no doubt be children adopted into many of these "marriages", and I have to wonder about the welfare of these children when the "new" wears off and the euphoria evaporates.
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