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Marriage is a religious insitution and it should stay that way. This is a sad day for traditional marriage.
Marriage is a religious institution. And it is also a non-religious institution. For example, some people get married by a judge, in a courthouse, with nary a word spoken about religion or any deity during the ceremony. This, in fact, describes my marriage to my wife in 1995. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if you wish the government would not have allowed me this right.
Religion has no more of a monopoly on marriage than it does on constructing buildings (churches, synagogues, mosques, etc.) or drinking wine (communion) or burning candles (Shabbat) or washing hands (wudu).
To those who values the christian tradiction it always was and will be a Christian Institution , but to all of those who don't value the Christian Tradictions it never was nor never will be a Religious Institution.....Marriage.
To those who values the christian tradiction it always was and will be a Christian Institution , but to all of those who don't value the Christian Tradictions it never was nor never will be a Religious Institution.....Marriage.
That's fine.
You're allowed to make up your own weird definitions for things even when said definitions have no bearing on reality. (which is pretty much the only thing at which religion excels!)
Marriage is a government institution actually. Church involvement is a "tradition" but has no legal say over it.
Marriage by a Justice of the Peace, is by a gov't official. Do not force religious institutions to perform this, or support it in any way, that would be sacrilegious. If we were really a free society, nobody should be forced to perform gay marriage, if it goes against their religious beliefs.
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My wife and I wouldn't like that.
