RE: "Jesus would rather kill, not marry, gay people" - Franklin Graham
July 17, 2018 at 9:15 am
(July 17, 2018 at 5:37 am)robvalue Wrote: Its a legal contract between two people. The genders/sexes of those two people have no effect on the contract. It's really sad to watch bigots pretend they have some genuine reason to protest.
Dropping the redundant restriction also stops any concern about transgender or intersex people marrying. It's two adults, making an agreement between themselves. It doesn't involve anyone else, so I find it bizarre anyone else thinks they should get a say.
I also want to note that any religious ceremony surrounding a marriage is just that. It doesn't create a marriage in the eyes of the law. A further secular legal document is required for that. If a religious person really did only care about being married "in the eyes of God", then they'd have no need for that secular document.
Believing that marriage is a legal contract is foolish simplistic nonsense. It is an institution that is and has been foundational to human flourishing longer than history. The institution contains the concept of commitments, bonds, emotions, sex, family, children, extended family bonds, economics, and a host of other small nuances.
