Our Sacramental Constitution

U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, an ordained United Methodist minister, says that the effort to pass a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage is "sinfully divisive."  (HT: Religion Clause)  He offers some interesting logic (reg. req'd):

"Marriage is a spiritual issue," said Cleaver, a Democrat. "That's not for the Congress to dictate, no more than it's appropriate for Congress to dictate how much bread should be used in communion. Communion is a sacrament. Marriage is a sacrament. Why not just put all the sacraments in the Constitution?"

Someone probably should alert Rep. Cleaver that our laws already say a thing or two about marriage, which makes his link to other sacraments just a bit attenuated.  (Though if we're headed in this direction, I'm all in favor of laws banning certain worship music.)

Another gem from Rep. Cleaver: "It's bad theology because there is nothing biblical about creating divisions between people."  So divisions between people are unbiblical?  Do the sheep and the goats ring a bell?  At a minimum, he needs to spend an evening reading Rick's latest.

I'm not a fan of the amendment, but this is plain crazy talk.

Rob