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Originally Posted by ubertuber
What I mean is, no one (at this point) is trying to force churches to confer the sacrament of marriage on same-sex couples. They are trying to acquire the benefits that are conferred by the government. The government's willingness/ability to grant these benefits to one class of people/relationships and not another is a sign that one group enjoys a favored status, or that those benefits are not appropriate to governmental discretion and should be granted to no one.
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This is where we have our disconnect. They are trying to aquire benefits that they are not eligible for. Like me trying to collect unemployment, even though I'm not unemployed. I just cannot agree with your viewpoint here. I also don't view gays and/or hetrosexuals as a "class" of people. I think they're making more of it than is neccessary. They are not eligible for marriage, by the very definition of marriage. Why should the definition be "ammended" for them?