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The gov needs to get out of the marriage business all together. Allow contractual unions and leave the term marriage as a ceremony sactioned and approved by Churches. Churches should never be forced to perform a marriage, or use its facilites, for a ceremony its faith doesn't support.
Isn't the wedding the ceremony. You get a marraige license at a municipal office and then have the wedding ceremony in a church of where ever it makes you happy right?
It's way past time for equality in South Carolina. Civil marriage laws will have no bearing on religious ceremonies, just like Catholic Priests don't have to perform weddings for non-Catholics, etc.
You're legally married once you have a government license which is paid for and registered.
If you want to have a Druid ceremony or any other to celebrate it, go for it. If you want it to be accepted by a church, then join a church that is willing to sanction your union.
I won't close the thread as it's an important local issue, but if you think this topic is an invitation for you to talk about the issue in general, to talk about your religion, to fight over it .. you're wrong. There are religion forums where you can talk about your faith or it's lack, there is the politics forum where you can discuss civil rights issues in general but here - either discuss the topic in a local context or don't post at all.
Yac.
I really do not understand that line of thinking, Coastalbum.
Straight people will not be required to divorce and marry a gay
person.
Those of us who are gay have not destroyed our straight neighbors
marriage by living next door,working,paying our taxes and living
our lives.
You don't approve of me and thats just fine, no one is stopping
you from preaching that all day long.
However, from a civil law context personal animus or moral
dissaproval are not sufficient grounds to deny us equal treatment.
Your side has to prove material harm and there has been none.
Scaremongering and conflating homosexuality and criminality
is fine and dandy in your church. But not in Court any longer whether
the Fourth Circuit ruling which SC is party to
is confirmed today or months from now.
I only hope our Attorney General Mr. Wilson can do what he can to uphold traditional marriage and keep gay marriage out of our state.
"I only hope our Attorney General Mr. McLeod can do what he can to uphold traditional marriage and keep interracial marriage out of our state."
Nearly 50 years later, that statement looks ridiculous. 50 years from now, yours will look equally ridiculous.
As a native South Carolinian, I'm proud of my home state and Charleston County for doing the right thing here. Marriage is a civil right and the Palmetto State has spent far too much of its history on the wrong side of the civil rights struggle. Here's hoping Wilson will wise up and drop this ridiculous charade like NC's Roy Cooper did.
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