Positive laws are laws that are enacted by governments and can be changed.
For example women may walk around topless in New York City.
Natural laws are laws that cannot be changed and to many are laws of higher power.
For example people are free to believe in whatever religion they would like to. You can try and force your religion on someone but not everyone will believe in that religion or change their beliefs because you ask them to,
Many people argue that marriage is a positive law that it can change. Many laws are archaic and don't change in accordance with technology or change in moral climate at the time.
Many more people argue that marriage is a natural law where it is dictated by the laws of god, allah, and so many more demigods and deities.
So what does this have to do with today?
Today it was published in the New York Times that the GOP is having a difficult time deciding whether or not to fight gay marriage and what that strategy is going to be in the upcoming 2016 elections.
I feel like in our modern time this is a prime example of why marriage is fluid and that the construct of marriage in our country will forever be changing.
This is very interesting. Are you going to talk about marriage laws in different states as well?
ReplyDeleteI love your point of view that marriage is ALWAYS changing because it is so incredibly true!
ReplyDeleteMarriage between two people of different races used to be frowned upon, but now it is happening everyday! Yay! There will always be changes occurring, but how we handle them are what matter.
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ReplyDeleteI think that he constitution is always going to have to change but I think the intent of the constitution gets lost sometimes in the land of politics.