The Ignorance of a Dilema

Now that Gay Marriage is official and legal in California, state prison officials face a perplexing situation. They must now try to figure out what to do with their gay inmates.

Although no prisoners so far have aggressively desired to arrange marriage with their gay partners, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation lawyers are drafting guidelines to bring the state's 33 adult prisons into compliance with the court's ruling that same sex couples must be treated the same as heterosexual couples under the California Constitution just in case.What they have determined is that the gay prisoners may marry someone outside of the correction system, but not a fellow prisoner. The rational: They need to give gay prisoners the same opportunity of rules that apply to the straight ones. Apparently prisoners have the right to marry when incarcerated.According to a recent article, spokeswoman for The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Michele Kane said "They will have the same marriage rights as other inmates - they will be able to marry non - inmates, but be barred from marrying other inmates in prison." Apparently the Department of Corrections is concerned that a stronger gay prisoner might find out that a weaker gay prisoner has money or other assets and will coerce the latter prisoner into marriage in order to claim half of their assets.I for one find that line of thinking a fine example of bureaucratic stupidity.

With all due respect Ms. Kane, under California Law, a prisoner with substantial assets must forfeit their assets to the State of California in order to allow the state the opportunity to recoup their cost of incarcerating and caring for the prisoner. All of this nonsense is the consequence of California becoming the first state to allow conjugal visits and overnight stays for inmates with same sex partners in the civilian population.

The practice of California is disturbing on at least two points.

The first and primary job of incarceration is to separate a person from the life in society and restrict their activity giving them time to improve and correct the behavior that brought them to incarceration in the first place. Allowing inmates to have conjugal visits and overnight stays is hardly a separation and restriction that would support or aid improvement and correction of behavior.

The second point being state endorsement of sinful behavior is appalling.

No one has yet to step to the plate and warn the Godless state of California of the unintended consequences of practicing ungodliness to a degree that outright thumbs their nose at the face of God.I for one shall obliged.

If there is any greater example of consequences that follow ungodly behavior receiving the wrath of God, one only has to look south to the little island of Haiti. It seems the hand of God has fallen upon that desolate and corrupt place and those that have practiced a lifestyle and worship contrary to God are now feeling His wrath.Having personally delivered over 30,000 pounds of food to the Haitians in April 2008 only to have it stolen by a local set of wolves in sheep's skin calling themselves "Pastors"; I can tell you first hand they are reaping what they have sown for years.As for our fellow Americans on the left coast: So much for vacations in the Golden State.