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I'm for the concept of doing away with "marriage" as a legal notion entirely. Give any two consenting adults the legal right to a civil union, but let marriage be determined by a religious or spiritual authority, if the two parties want to go that route. I think this decision will compel religious institutions and others to recognize something they agree is sinful. I think it is going to be a dramatic overreach
If you want to have a purely religious institution for uniting a man & woman, call it holy matrimony. "Marriage" is more than a ceremony. It is a state a couple lives in. "They are married." It means more than a day where a guy (or gal) in a funny dress holds up a book in front of a couple who stands before a crowd and says, "Yeah, it's okay!" It is how I live my life. I go home to my husband. He comes home to me. We take on the world together, because we're married. Whether or not we participated in a ceremony of holy matrimony to get a blessed union, we are married. And now gay couples can say the same thing everywhere.
GAY MARRIAGE?
That’s like a contract for lifetime supply of prescription glasses for a blind man. Why bother?
From antiquity, the purpose of marriage was to join property rights of the parties for the benefit of progeny. That’s why illegitimate children did not inherit from their father nor had a claim upon his support.
When gay couples can gene splice progeny, by all means, then marry and endow the children.
As to the “benefits” derived from socialism, that is a whole ‘nuther topic.
This is a HUGE deal... if you are 2-4% of the population.
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