Reply #10: Guess it all depends on what your definition of a marraige is. [View All]

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Is it a piece of paper? Is it the committment between two people itself, is it the ceremony that announces their official joining?

The right wing churches have a problem with the religious ceremony being applied to those who they believe are in open defiance of God's law. I understand that objection, though I don't share their interpretation of the Scriptures. But since the government should not be in the business of regulating religion the decision on church weddings should be left entirely up to the individual denominations. Likewise, the churches, despite their right to their personal beliefs, have no right whatsoever to dictate what the legal rights of other citizens should be, especially when the clear implication is because you're sinning against God, you don't deserve "special rights" (like being covered under your partner's health insurance, or hospital visitation, custody issues, etc.)

No true Christian, regardless of their feelings on homosexuality itself, could possibly justify such blatant discrimination. Problem is that many of them just take the word of Pat Robertson, Rick Santorum, the Pope or (God help us) Fred Phelps and never consider that reality at all :-(