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I have a quick question for people who are opposed to legalization of homosexual marriage: does your position change if all state "marriages" are renamed to "civil unions," and only religious organizations actually grant "marriages?" Now, everyone gets the same civil contract granting all the legal benefits of marriage, and your particular religious organization can grant you whatever title it chooses in its marriage practices. If this is just some harmless semantic battle, and you simply don't want to sully the long standing Merriam-Webster definition of the word; would you feel more comfortable adopting a semantic choice that clearly delineates the civil/state institution from the religious one?
As to why people feel odd about homosexual marriage, I think part of it natural resistance to change; I think this natural resistance to change is reinforced by widespread traditional homophobia. I find it exceptionally difficult to believe that a nation of people who commonly say things such as "so, then, like, I was totally like 'oh my god,' but then she was totally like 'as if,' so then i was totally, like, you know, like, 'oh. ma. god!!!'" and "well fucking shit bo, what the fuck was that shit all about, fuck fuck fuckedy fuck fuck fuck" or "fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on ...well shame, well you can't fool me." really are having such a strong opposition because they don't want the technical definition to be altered.
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