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Originally posted by HarmlessRabbit
Maybe we all just had better things to do on a saturday night. 
I don't get how marriage is tied up in the church. Anyone can go to a courthouse and get married. I'm a $20 reverend in the Universal Life Church and I have performed six weddings in Ohio, Washington, California, and Utah.
So, I fail to understand the original point. Marriage on a federal and state level is *not* a religious institution, it's simply something that entitles you to certain governmental rights.
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I don't get how marriage is tied up in the state. I have no problems with the state declaring my union a "civil union." That doesn't "downgrade" my marriage, which was performed by a pastor, to anything.
If only for the sake of unifying the nation rather than polarizing it, I'd rather that marriage was not a civil institution. That is, the Christian majority is going to continue believing marriage is a religious institution, regardless. So we might as well take it out of the state's pervue.