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Then how do you explain all the state's laws that dictate the various requirements to marriage.
Anyone can be married, no one can stop them, so no one's rights are being violated. What we are talking about is marriages that are officially endorsed and supported by state governments, and on that, the states have authority to set standards in law.
The poster questioned religious influences upon laws. Since many laws are influenced by religious ideas - I wondered if the poster was hostile to our laws. What is strange about that?
Where do we as a people draw the line? Do we start stoning people as the Bible suggests? Our laws are not based on one religion or another or any for that matter. They are societal and based on the common good not religion. Universal human morality does not find it's origins in religion.
You act like all 35 million Californians are as liberal as Western Europeans. Hardly. The majority of Californians do not live in San Francisco, Los Angeles, or San Diego.
I live very close to Los Angeles - and it is a GREAT CITY - does that count?
many people lost their job for following they're religion and you bgiots are happy.
Observant Muslims shouldn't apply for jobs as bacon tasters. That's not bigotry.
Likewise, city clerks who find themselves unable to cope with their religious hang-ups have a completely misconstrued idea of their relative importance. Public servants are not there to make the rules, they're there to carry them out.
listen I don't care if it's not religious if you held a gun to my head and required and told me I had to give a civil marriage" licensee or, even a civil union I would still be forbidden to give them the document. (what I said above is Jewish law not some hyperbole) I wouldn't even be allowed to open the door to allow a judge to walk into a gay wedding ceremony in a court.
If you would make me you are a bigot and a anti semite just like the Soviets.
If somebody held a gun to your and told you to marry two gay people that would be a great time to realize that religion imaginary nonsense and you actually don’t really have to follow stupid rules written by drunken sheep herders wandering the desert. HA!
Universal human morality does not find it's origins in religion.
Sure it does. Study the history of current legislation in the United States, and the U.S. Constitution. If you deny that religion had any influence in either - I have to ask what you are smoking(your right to do so which I would fully support!).
listen I don't care if it's not religious if you held a gun to my head and required and told me I had to give a civil marriage" licensee or, even a civil union I would still be forbidden to give them the document. (what I said above is Jewish law not some hyperbole) I wouldn't even be allowed to open the door to allow a judge to walk into a gay wedding ceremony in a court.
If you would make me you are a bigot and a anti semite just like the Soviets.
You can bet your ass that gays will want to force every religion to recognize gay marriage also.
I'd say your lack of reading comprehension skills puts you in the latter category. Hint: "Marriage and Procreation" does not state, nor even imply, that the latter is required (or even possible) for the former to be a fundamental right.
do you know anything about the case in question?
Marriage and Procreation was linked for a reason.
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