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I've said it before and I'll say it again - none of this would be a problem if we left "marriage" in the religious sense to the churches, and instituted some kind of secular civil recognition of conjugal rights by the government. Though I'm kind of with Art - a lot of the legal stuff can be handled through other channels, and if you're committed to each other, have a commitment ceremony or something. If you want to be "married" go talk to your clergy. I'm all for giving gay couples the automatic rights that heterosexual couples get upon marriage - otherwise it's hypocritical and unfair. But I think rather than extending a flawed process to more people we need to separate the religious and civil aspects of marriage at the legal level.
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