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Since marriage is, and by dictionary definition, part of a religious rite then you must see that secular marriage, i.e. union/domestic partnership is the legal equivolent. You've already conceded that

By having a definition to make it a legal matter, defining MARRIAGE as between one man and one woman does NOT mean same sex couples can't be joined in a ...

Alright I'm going to try to limit myself because we're all getting a little long winded. Excalibur to the limited extent that Prop 8 was a protection of religious freedom ...

Marriage is synomous with religion and much of the rites which encompass it. Do you have any idea how easy it is to get a marriage license? Judges, many lawyers, ...

Flemzo; nice new angle. I guess that could lead to the thoroughly disconcerting conclusion that gender is perhaps more of a social construct than a strictly static biological one. I ...

Going from a different view, it would be sinful to not do so, under the clause of 'in sickness and health'. Of course going from this point of view, a ...

The Medieval Church never managed to fully dominate marriage (as it never officially became a sacrament during the early medieval period) so to an extent this claim that Marriage is, ...

and since religion no longer governs society Um...clearly it does, even if not to the extent that it once did. Just because there is a conceptual separation of church and ...

I am not sure if you are all familiar with the concept of moral relativity? Nobody is better than anybody, in any way, no matter what. Because "better" is a ...

I'm pro life too, but it should be the mother's choice, not anyone else's. Not to be a douche, but this means you're pro-choice (within the pro-choice/pro-life dichotomy). When the ...

When marriage meant something, the cases of abuse and the sort were treated harshly. In some cultures if either partner was not satisfied the marriage could be annulled simply on ...

"it" is less unwieldy than "she/he"

Well, conceptually, an all knowing, all powerful god could simply set universal constants and then let the universe unfold. He would be in control of every step of the way ...

Lenin was always going on about how he couldn't listen to classical music (can't quite remember which) unless it made him feel too compassionate to get the whole Bolshevik Revolution ...

To you realize that the wonder of the fulcrum and its use is still a highly advanced weapon for the location and time? This is the KEY universal weapon which ...