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I fully support removing the current discriminatory clauses from the existing laws, but I don't feel that doing that by creating new laws that simply change what the clauses discriminate against is the appropriate action. To me marriage law should say "between two people" and everybody else should stay the hell out of it. I despise the religious connotations that are added to almost every aspect of life, and trust me, living in Utah they are everywhere.
Really to clarify what I'm trying to express is that it just seems wrong to me that the reaction of these groups to the naysayers is to create a polarity opposition, go as far the other direction as they can and completely eliminate the middle ground, I see this as detrimental to everyone involved.
Situations like these laws, and their repeated failure to pass, have created animosity among all of the participants, even hatred at the more extreme levels. Time and time again rather than attempting to have the existing laws amended to incorporate equal rights for everyone, they introduce things to grant specific special rights to a particular set of people, which only perpetuates the problem by leave the rest of the groups that suffer from a similar discrimination to fend for themselves.
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