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If government would get out of the marriage business, we wouldn't even be having this debate. Anyone could get married to another person who is consenting, and knows what they are consenting to, if they find a religious place that will do it. Marriage is a religious thing, not a government thing. (I know the gov is involved, I'm saying they ought to keep their hands out of it, it's not for them to decide.)
We would never have had the issue of black marrying white. We wouldn't have the issue of two gays marrying, if government got the hell out of it.
Funny how this position was almost never heard before SSM started winning.
The point of gay people having the right to marry isn't whether or not they deserve the right. The point is why should the government deny them the right.
The state has an interest in marriage because there are legal and financial issues attached to marriage. Polygamy poses unique challenges in those areas. Incest involves another issue, a medical issue. But if two non-related people get married, what difference does it make to the state if those two people are of the same sex or are of different sexes? If there is no difference, then the state has no interest in treating those couples differently.
What interest does the state have in marriage even existing?
Hilarious. I pointed out in the original post that you CANNOT believe in that argument without contradicting yourself - unless you're attempting to argue that everyone, including siblings and parent/progeny can marry, as long as they're legal age and the contract is not signed under duress.
And yet that was the amendment that was sited in Loving V Virginia, which did not remove all restrictions an marriage. But I guess you know more about constitutional law that supreme court justices.
Oh, I see. You've joined the "words mean anything you want them to mean, there is no definition" crowd.
Look up the definition of marriage in any current dictionary.
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