Gay Marriage: Who Cares?
On Aug 28, 12:28*am, flipper wrote:
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:33:23 -0700 (PDT), "Shhhh!!!! I'm Listening to
Reason!" wrote:
On Aug 26, 10:38*pm, Jenn wrote:
Bottom line: *definitions change. *There is no logical reason to not
legalize same-sex marriage. *The Prop. 8 decision states it perfectly.
I think the easier route would be for there to be no "marriage
licenses" issued by the government. If boneheads like Flipper want to
argue definitions they would recognize that "marriage" has been a
religious term for the same thousands of years he argues.
You'd have a hard time proving that in prehistory but, setting that
aside, just which religion do you propose 'invented' it and how did
they force it upon all the others?
Pick your poison. The LDS made polygamy "normal". Every religion has
it's marital views. Aren't four OK in Islam?
Aren't the children who come from a non-Jewish mother not Jews?
There's some rule like that. And so on. So the answer is "all of
them".
Have the government issue civil union licenses and let each church
determine who they will marry or not marry.
I'll go ya one better. Why is government making laws or issuing
anything about 'unions'?
Fair enough. That's too radical for now but I agree. Throw it back on
the churchs were it belongs.
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