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Originally posted by prosequence
I agree with the earlier statement of same sex marriages being called something other than marriage... maybe like State Union er something....
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Having a separate term would really complicate things for the worse. No doubt quite a few insurance companies and agencies would continue to discriminate between "state union" and "marriage" in their policies and the situation would be little changed. If Gays lobbied for "state unions" or something and the corporate sector didn't fall into line, they'd be worse off. The public would think, "they got what they wanted" while in reality they got almost nothing but a meaningless and powerless new catchphrase.
If the state enforced contract of marriage is an exclusively Christian concept, then the first amendment is being violated. America lets Muslims marry. America lets Atheists marry.