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Originally Posted by Ducimus
Personally, I don't appreciate anyone forcing their religous views upon me. Likewise, I can appreciate how one might take similar offense by having someone elses views being forced upon their faith.
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How exactly does making same-sex marriages legal force anything on you? Will you be forced to marry another man? Will churches be forced to perform gay marriages? In both cases the answer is "no".
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Marriage in and of itself, I fail to see how you can separate religion from it. On the other hand, i think that's already been done, and is called a civil union, which as i already stated, think they should be able to have.
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As I said, going to a JP removes religion from the equation. The point of marriage is twofold. First is to guarantee that the children will have two parents, one of each sex. In that context it can be argued that marriage, and sex, need to be between a man and a woman. But no one marries for that reason anymore, just as no one has ever had sex just to make a baby. The main benefit of marriage today is to guarantee inheritance. If you die your wife inherites everything, and doesn't have to pay an inheritance tax. That benefit does not apply to "civil unions" as far as I know.
The point is that the definition of "marriage" has never been just religious, and tha definition has changed many times over the millenia. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, why should you care if a man marries another man? It neither picks your pocket nor breaks your leg.