We'll help you beg permission from the state to exercise your second amendment rights in the hope that you'll choose to exercise you're first amendment rights without government permission at our facility.
Gestation must be an incredibly boring experience for the baby. Nine months of being crapped in a tight, dark space. It doesn't surprise me that they'd yawn.
The valid claims against the HHS mandate based on individual liberty are legion, but Obama will push through them all with his fingers in his ears saying "la la la la la I am not listening".
And, thanks to the "It's the government's job to take care of me" attitude that generally prevails in places like NYC, they will probably be in (literal) darkness for a while.
I would be surprised to hear many generators churning in NYC. That smacks of self-sufficiency, which is stereotypically not common in liberal enclaves. For all I know, the concomitant noise is probably illegal anyway.
When I refer to the church defining marriage, I use it in the same context a the church administrating any other sacrament. I'm not taking about the Roman Catholic church, if that's what you're asking.
In the final analysis, the marriage covenant is made before God. Anyone can make a civil contract, but it isn't marriage any more than a real estate lease agreement is.
If the state decides that two men can marry, can two men marry? That's not allowed from a scriptural point. To say that they can marry is an admission that something outside the church decides marriage. If not the state, then what? We either follow the current zeitgeist, or we don't.