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By David Edwards
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:06 EST
Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) on Wednesday told straight couples that God was the third person in your marriage.
In an hourlong session on the House floor, Huelskamp was joined by Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Ted Yoho (R-FL), and others to celebrate so-called Marriage Week opposing equal rights for LGBT people.
And so those who are listening, Huelskamp said as the hour came to a close. Whether youre fathers or mothers or looking at that, recognize that even though society, even though Hollywood will tell us its all about you, its not! Its all about someone else. Its all about that child.
This is National Marriage Week, this is a time in our nation, not only to talk about marriage, talk about its impacts, talk about how its loss has hurt our society, he continued. At the end of the day, its all about how important marriage is. Marriage predates government.
Huelskamp noted that the Republican Partys 1856 platform opposed the twin evils of slavery and barbarism, which he said referred to irregular marriage.
I just want to speak again to moms and dads and spouses, the Kansas Republican concluded. Marriage can be tough. It really is. But God is calling you to do everything you can. Its just not you and your spouse. Theres a third person in your marriage. And God would like to bless and protect that marriage, and give you many fruitful days ahead.
After Huelskamp finished his remarks, the chair admonished him for violating House rules by directing his remarks to a perceived viewing audience.
Watch the video below from C-SPAN, broadcast Feb. 11, 2013.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/12/rep-tim-huelskamp-rails-against-lgbt-rights-god-is-the-third-person-in-your-marriage/
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tanyev
(42,677 posts)Very interesting.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)If we assume the Holy Ghost is male.
I replied the same thing down below without seeing this post first...
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)tanyev
(42,677 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Does that mean there are two women and one man? But then, if the Goddess believer is also a trinitarian, does that mean, Mom, Son, the Holy Ghost plus the human couple? Wow. Crowded bed!
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)When I was a child I attended a Protestant church, and we always heard about the father, the son, and the holy ghost.
So add a couple more guys, and now it's four men and one woman.
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)A marriage is not a marriage if there is no marriage license issued by a competent authority.
But let's give Mr. Huelskamp some latitude. I'm sure by "God" he means the Judo-Christian God but not Allah or any of the gods of other faiths.
So do those marriages not count? What about only civil marriages (i.e. marriages that are not solemnized by a religious ceremony)?
hatrack
(59,605 posts)Oh, and by the way, blow me.
Mike Daniels
(5,842 posts)in their marriages but it wasn't God.
You'd think that in light of adultery and the divorce rate in general along with the various sexual peccadilloes of numerous Republican leaders and rank and file politicians that the GOP would drop the whole "defense/sanctity of marriage" crap from their arguments regarding their opposition to same-sex marriages.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Originally, marriage was just a mechanism to share productivity (one in the house and one on the field). Later, it became a legal tool to regulate inheritance.
Marriages weren't even a religious thing until the Middle-Ages.
FSogol
(45,595 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)MineralMan
(146,351 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Which kinda goes against the teaching of the bible doesn't it?
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)something I just thought of...
If the couple breaks up, who gets custody of God?
Is he named in the divorce papers, or does he stay married to each one anyway after the divorce?
And what if each person of a divorced couple, still married to god, marries someone else who also had god in his or marriage? Does that mean there are two Gods in each marriage now?
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Didn't we get rid of the British theocratic monarchy 238 years ago?
Paladin
(28,287 posts)As if Huelskamp has any standing whatsoever to lecture people about marriage, or to stipulate what it takes to be a decent human being. And yet there he is, in the U.S. Congress, with lots of like-minded fanatics to keep him company.
RedstDem
(1,239 posts)I like it!
icymist
(15,888 posts)WTF is that supposed to mean?