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Keyser Söze

On 5/29/15 8:26 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 29 May 2015 15:52:36 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 5/29/15 3:34 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 29 May 2015 13:35:30 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

Republicans at work…

Oklahoma House passes bill restricting marriage to people of faith

Marriage is a religious ceremony and it should be completely unbundled
from the government.
The government has no business in the marriage process.

We have eliminated all of the actual constraints of marriage in the
law so it should simply be recognized as pure contract law and dealt
with as a civil partnership between any 2 or more adults.

Let the church deal with the spiritual issue of "marriage".

That's not going to happen in this country, because the fundie churches
won't stand for that, either.

This is a bigger issue of the separation of church and state than a
creche in the town square. I am surprised the ACLU folks have not
embraced it. Why does a religious ceremony like marriage have the
force of law? Why is the government involved at all?

I'm still trying to understand why gay marriage is a threat to
heterosexual marriage.

Partly because of the rights and privileges that attach to marriage.