(May 30, 2011 at 9:08 pm)Anymouse Wrote:(February 18, 2011 at 1:10 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: No civil union talk here. Either you support same sex marriage as equal to opposite sex marriage or you dont.
Actually, if some religious want to claim some right to the term "marriage" as being somehow "sacred," then I am all for the Government here getting out of the marriage business.
All marriages become civil unions in the eyes of the Government; a secular government has no business meddling in religion. If one wants a religious ceremony that's fine, but the only union the government recognises would be a secular one for benefits, taxes, whatever.
Churches can call their religious unions whatever they want.
My sis is in a California same-sex marriage; if I opposed such things I would have to pitch my sister. I am not willing to do that.
But a "plain" civil union doesn't grant legal kinship, therefore it's not the answer.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
