Would you accept the law if it offered same sex couples civil unions but not "religious marriages?"
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Current law doesn't require religious marriage for heterosexual, why would it need to for homosexuals. The church and state are separate. It is up to religious organizations to decide if they want to perform same sex marriages.
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well, first of all, not ALL marriages are even religious. civil unions are a step in the right direction, but still "separate but not equal." If we (in the United States, at least) are "All Created Equal," then shouldn't all citizens have the same right to marry? any consenting, unrelated, adult couple in a monogamous, committed relationship should have that right!
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I wouldn't see a problem with this at all...why would you want a religious marriage in the first place when its the church thats been heaping shit on you since day dot
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In the United States we have separation of church and state. That means that the government has absolutely nothing to do with religious marriages one way or the other. The ONLY thing gay people are asking the US government for is civil, legal marriage, period. Equality under the LAW. As it stands now many churches and temples provide religious same-sex marriages. As for churches that do not want to perform same-sex marriages, no law can force them to do so, nor is anyone asking for one.
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I would accept it if the line between church and state would remain in place.
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The government already provides marriage to people who prefer to go before a judge and not have a religious ceremony. That's not called a civil union. I want marriage equality. I don't care what churches think about it. They are supposed to have no voice in politics in the US anyway. We have separation of church and state.
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Yes I would. It's a good first step. You can't take down a mountain with one good push, you have to take it down stone by stone until it topples on its own.
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The issue isn't really what gay marriage should be called; the issue is the inequality between hetero- and homosexual marriages. At present, they do not get the same rights. If a homosexual married couple went to an anti-gay state, their marriage wouldn't be recognized. It just... sickens me, that we can let such obvious wrong-doing pass. It's like when there was a North and a South divided into slave- and free-states. And that culminated in a Civil War. I just hope we doesn't have to wage war so that others can love whom they will.
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