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Originally posted by fuzyfuzer
and i stand by my position on the issue. i feel that the government should have no say in marrige at all. i think it is a religous institution and deverse nothing in our legal system. my vote came down to money and this view. i don't want the infection to spread. maybe i can not erradicate it but if i can help slow i feel i did the right thing. this is just my belief and i can think of many people on this board with very radical to the left mine just happens to go radical to the right. sorry if it offends you.
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while i don't always agree with radical ideas, i have no problem with the idea of getting govt. out of marriage. make it a religous thing only. great. but denying gays marriage rights because you don't want "the infection to spread" smacks of bigotry. rather than working towards getting govt. out of marraige, you'd deny them the rights that everyone else has. i personlly think that the reasons you gave in teh other thread were nothing more than BS. if tehy weren't, then i don't think you have a very realistic or rational view of the world.
as it were, based on your reasoning, i'd have to say that if i were gay, i would probably find a lesbian friend to marry, and maybe have my life partner marry hers, so that way we're still getting the tax breaks and whatnot that you're so against. so since they can still marry people tehy don't love, you really haven't done anything.