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Finally someone who gets it and realizes that homosexuality is not a race, religion or creed and that marriage has always been or mostly a religious institution whether you like it or not.
Finally someone who gets it and realizes that homosexuality is not a race, religion or creed and that marriage has always been or mostly a religious institution whether you like it or not.
It is only racist if you are against people getting married because of skin color, it is bigoted to be against people getting married because of sexual orientation.
Finally someone who gets it and realizes that homosexuality is not a race, religion or creed and that marriage has always been or mostly a religious institution whether you like it or not.
If a hetero-sexual couple marries in a courthouse, does that necessarily make the marriage religious?
If a gay couple marries in a church (there are many churches across the country that perform gay marriage ceremonies) would that not make their marriage religious?
If a hetero-sexual couple marries in a courthouse, does that necessarily make the marriage religious?
If a gay couple marries in a church (there are many churches across the country that perform gay marriage ceremonies) would that not make their marriage religious?
Better question is
Why do people need to enter into agreements before a government/religious institution to receive basic human rights?
Why do people need to enter into agreements before a government/religious institution to receive basic human rights?
Because when people divorce they turn to the legal system. When someone dies his/her spouse and children turn to legal system for money.
When an American marries a foreigner, he/she needs the government to grant a visa, etc.
Why do people need to enter into agreements before a government/religious institution to receive basic human rights?
A right to marry has been a fundamental right afforded by the consitution, and has been ruled on more than a dozen times. If it's not than I don't see why any other right in the constitution or bill of rights would be a civil right either. What you are arguing is that the consitution and bill of rights shouldn't give people basic rights.
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