The Supreme Court Ruling on Marriage Equality.

I am a Christian. However, being a Christian does not disconnect my ability to think, suspend my knowledge of history, or dismiss science.

Last Friday the Supreme Court of the United States proclaimed that all US citizens have equal rights. I don't mean to offend fellow Christians, but this was a legal ruling, not a religious one.

Our country was founded by founding fathers, and they were very smart guys. They deliberately wanted to prevent the establishment of a national religion from or by our government. The Church - Catholic or Anglican - was central to most of the other countries in the world and historically in England where our founding fathers were bent on getting away from. It was critical to them that one central religion NOT be declared and NOT be incorporated into our Government or Constitution.  They knew that the establishment of some kind of national religion would someday diminish the very rights they thought were basic; rights they thought were fundamental and were meant to be recognized and protected by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  Religious-based loss of basic rights had been their experience in England and they wanted to prevent that from happening here. So when somebody tells you that this country was founded in Christian/Judaeo beliefs, that is a bunch of made-up hooey.

The Supreme Court ruling was a LEGAL one about the scope of human rights for all citizens. It wasn't about morality, values, social trends, or religion. It was about the scope of the Constitution.

Rights should not be up to States to determine. If they were, black citizens wouldn't be able to vote in the south or eat in white establishments. Rights are absolute and cannot be dependent on anything other than someone is a human being and is a citizen of the United States. It those two conditions are met, OUR beliefs about morality or spiritual right and wrong no longer count.

My father-in-law used to say that the Muslim religion was an evil religion. He was equating all Muslims with ISIS. The fact is when Muslims look at Christian inspired wackos like The Nazi Party, The Crusades, The Inquisition, The Salem Witch Trials, and the Ku Klux Klan, Muslims probably think that Christianity is an evil religion. It's not fair or accurate in either case. But one religious group thinking they know THE truth for all humans is how this awful stuff starts.

Our founding fathers didn't want that to happen. The Supreme Court doesn't either. That this is now the law of the land just demonstrates that all human rights are protected. Why should I be okay with that? Because although there are lots of people turning a blind eye to the "browning of America", and sooner than we might like this perhaps will be a predominately Muslim nation. I, for one, want my rights as a Christian protected.

Perhaps if we think that this ruling is wrong, maybe we are confusing the idea of constitutional (human) rights and not what we call sin. If sin was a qualifier to get a fair shake in this nation, we'd all be in trouble.

Maybe someday historians will shake their heads in disbelief about this the same way they do about the fact that women couldn't vote until 1920, or that once blacks were once 3/5ths of a vote (that their master got to cast).  I guess only time will tell.

But now in this case equality is the law of the land.