"when socialism fails, blame capitalism and demand more socialism." - A friend
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“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” - Paulo Coelho
My point is it is a religeous ceremony. I don't want people telling me what my religeon can define as marriage , and so I won't do so towards another religeon. It honestly affects me not at all if some other church wants to call marriage a union of two gays. Or ten lesbians, or whatever.
This world would be MUCH better off if the whole world would stop worrying about everyone else.
Religion was recognized as a civic matter long before it took on its current religious form. The Bishop of Antioch didn't try to get the Church involved in marriage as it existed until the year 110 C.E.
Nobody's doing any such thing. What we are doing is saying that your church can't dictate what civic unions and contracts the State will recognize just because you think homosexuality, race mixing, or marrying outside the church is 'sin'.I don't want people telling me what my religeon can define as marriage
I say we do it like Rome. Marriage is a personal matter between the parties involved- no reason for the State to be involved or for any religious entities to be involved unless the parties marrying wish for the blessing of the temple/church/whatever.