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Is redefining marriage wrong? - Yes

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English: Sigmund Freud (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Over eighty years ago, the influential psychologist Sigmund Freud wrote his seminal work which would come to be known in the English translation as Civilization and Its Discontents . No one familiar with the book could deny its influence on our culture or the fact that it has shaped the mindset regarding sexual ethics that informs many members of the movement to redefine marriage. In one of its most often quoted lines, Freud posits that "what decides the purpose of life is simply the program of the pleasure principle ." Certainly it is unquestionable that much of our culture's confusion regarding marriage is due to following that precise train of thought — the pleasure principle. Redefining Marriage And Its Consequences The push to redefine marriage is about substituting the desires of adults for the needs of children. The push to redefine marriage is about substituting an imagined 'right' for sam

Georgia’s GOP gov. vetoes bill to stop pastors from being forced to perform gay ‘weddings’

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Facing a nationwide boycott that threatened the economic well-being of his state, the governor of Georgia announced Monday that he would veto a bill to enshrine First Amendment protections for pastors and religious organizations with a traditional view of marriage. The Free Exercise Protection Act (H.B. 757) would have specified that clergy do not have to perform same-sex “marriages,” and that religious organizations do not have to rent out their facilities for such a ceremony, nor do they have to hire anyone if doing so would violate the group's sincerely held religious beliefs about human sexuality. The bill also forbade the state from requiring businesses to remain open on Saturday or Sunday if doing so would prevent attendance at religious services. Gov. Deal , a Republican, said Monday that he favored the early version of the bill. But the NFL threatened to pull the Super Bowl out of the state if it passed. A coalition of Hollywood studios including Disney and M