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Legislating morals
Our entire legal system is based on morals. It is based on what our society has determined is right or wrong. Our society believed it is immoral to steal something from someone else, and made it illegal. The federal government determined that it was immoral for children to work long hours and limited the number of hours children can work. The issue of same-sex marriage is one of morals. It is a social and political issue.
Many people believe that homosexual acts are immoral and that the State government should not encourage such behavior. It has been immoral under most religions for thousands of years. A majority of Muslims, Jews, and Christians agree on this issue and a vast majority of people across the world now and in the past have agreed.
Creating same-sex marriage in Washington will open the doors for more modifications to please other moral minorities (September 2007 Bar News). Polygamy has been accepted in some societies, and shouldn’t they be accommodated too? The age requirement for marriage is somewhat artificial and different in different societies. The sanctity of marriage will suffer if its definition is diluted to include anyone who wants to do anything.
Some people are dissenting from the morals and ideas of past generations. The legislature has accommodated this minority by allowing homosexuals to adopt children. This created some moral acceptance of behavior that a majority of the people of Washington State still considered to be immoral. When the legislature recently created domestic partnerships for same-sex couples, they knew the majority of the people of this state would not agree. That is why they wrote the bill so that a referendum by the people was not allowed.
A minority of people are changing the morals of the law and forcing their ideas on the majority. This is not how our republican form of government is supposed to work.
Some may say that by holding to the morals that served societies all over the world for thousands of years, we show we do not like the people who are having same-sex relationships. It is not that we do not like them, we love them, but believe they are doing the wrong thing.
The same-sex marriage issue is definitely one of morals, which makes it a political and social issue. The WSBA should not take a position on the issue of same-sex marriages because the morals of the bar members are diverse.
Jeanette Burrage, Des Moines