Gay Marriage Paradox


	Gay Marriage Paradox

drjamie03

3-22-2007 2:26 PM

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gay marriage, amendment

drjamie03 says:

Interesting idea...most Americans oppose gay marriage, yet don't want it written into the constitution because that would be intolerant? So it's okay to BE intolerant...just not to legalize it?

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3-22-2007 4:14 PM

Thorne

The whole concept of marriage as a legal state violates the separation between church and state.
A marriage occurs by/through religious laws.
When one files for a legal document, federally and locally recognized which is currently known as a "Marriage Certificate", one one is actually recieving is a legal filing of a joining of two people under law. A personal as well as business partnership. A legal marriage is only a filing by which to allow certain priveledges and protect both partners.

Perhaps, instead of seeking legal gay marriage, we should be seeking to illegalize "marriage" as a religious ritual which has no legal value.
Then we could simply make everyone file a domestic partner...

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