I Now Pronounce You...

Step 2 in California’s plan to destroy the sacrament of marriage has begun.

Step 1 was California’s highest court ruling that limiting marriage to a man and a woman is unconstitutional. In step 2 all words having a connection to traditional marriage will be cleansed from the state’s books. Just ask Pastor Doug Bird of Abundant Life Fellowship in Roseville, CA.

According to worldnetdaily.com, a couple just married by Pastor Bird made the mistake of signing their marriage license “ ‘bride’ and ‘groom’ next to ‘Party A’ and ‘Party B’ because they wanted to be legally recognized as husband and wife. “

(http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=74768) Not so fast said Placer County. "I received back the license and a letter from the Placer County Clerk/Recorder stating that the license 'does not comply with California State registration laws,'" Bird said in a statement from the Pacific Justice Institute.

California is using an Orwellian method to redefine the definition of marriage. The theory is that if you remove the offending words from people’s vocabularies, over time you will expunge the concepts themselves from people’s minds. Hence, if the younger generations don’t hear “bride” and “groom”, it will never occur to them that they should hear anything other than “Party A” and “Party B”. (Incidentally, if this hasn’t happened already, look for the same approach to be taken with regards to children. The terms “parents”, “mother”, and “father” will be rejected in favor of “guardian” and “caregiver”.)

One other observation: I am surprised that a group such as the polygamists have not tried to capitalize on the California court’s rejection of traditional marriage. If a court has decided that marriage cannot be defined as only between a man and a woman, then why can’t a man justifiably have five or ten wives? Once you’ve removed the restriction from marriage’s definition, you have no moral grounds to ban any other voluntary arrangement.


Donald Tremblay