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Which...is fine. I, like so many others, also believe that homosexuals should be allowed legal marriage, but that churches should not be forced to marry them.
So...what then is the problem? To whom are we arguing our stated point?
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To those who are opposed. From the responses I've read here too, most people don't seem to have a problem with allowing same sex marriages to be legalised, as long as that doesn't impede on the church goers.
As I mentioned earlier, I'm not religious, nor my husband or anyone in my family down the line. I would think it hypocritical of me to decide to get married in a church because that's the norm. In fact, I'd be quite surprised if the norm in Australia is a church wedding and personally I believe if this is the case, it stems from the older generation.
We opted for a beach wedding with an intimate party of 20 people. When I said my vows that day, there could have been no one else there - it wouldn't have mattered a rats. I was speaking to the person I loved and the people present were privileged to be witness.
I just don't understand why a small minority of people feel that 'commitment', which is what it is, are so against it and feel that they have the right to stop people making this 'COMMITMENT' to another person - not them - but the person they love.
We can all say 'heh, it's just a piece of paper' and so it is, but then let these couples have their piece of paper