(May 25, 2012 at 12:25 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:Quote:So I pose a question to those who oppose the legal of same sex marriages. Why just stop at preventing the legal recognition of same sex marriages if you want to protect the institution of marriage. Why not strip same sex and defacto couples of the legal benefits they and married couples enjoy?Why should one do that, really?
They enjoy the same legal benefits, true, but they do not enjoy the same social acceptance and burden, the responsibility that is associated with marriage. And I don't think that society ever did expect such a thing from homosexual couples anyways.
It's a middle path, I believe, that is acceptable, yes?
Kılıç_mehmet,
The question I posed was to generally Christian opponents of the legal recongition of same sex marriages.
Anyway when I refer to the legal recognition of same sex marriages. Because such marriages are already occurring, they are just not recognised as such by law in most countries. In my country for example two people of the same sex marrying each other arent arrested or such an act is illegal. Such marriages arent recognised by the government as marriages as opposed to civil unions or domestic partnerships.
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