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The FBI, pretending to be tecoyah, wrote:
All I can say is that since the Government can't distinguish between the term "marriage" as being a government term or a religious term...maybe all references to marriage should be abolished from government because of the ties with church and religion. Maybe "civil union" is the proper term.
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If a person can't distinguish between the legal term "marriage" and being married in their religion, maybe they should get an education. =p~
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Lurkette wrote:
I've always said that the real problem is that the government is trying to regulate what is essentially a religious institution. The religous aspect and the civil aspects of marriage need to be separated.
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Marriage is essentially a social institution, a culturally common way of two people allying and becoming almost one legal 'person'.
The religious aspect of marriage is something the government should stay out of, I agree. Possibly they should give the power to legally marry people out to particular people, but what exact religious significance marriage has is something government should make no law about.
However, changing piles and piles of legal mumbo-jumbo, replacing "marriage" with "civil union" in laws, making sure that "civil union" has the same common-law status, and all that, just because some numbnut idiots don't understand they don't have the right to own a word?
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"thesis-antithesis-synthesis"
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You forgot Parenthesis, and Paralysis. ;-)