How do you make the case for same sex marriage?

[TaraJo]

Hi Tarajo,

I don't think it can be a marriage. The law calls it a "civil partnership". The word "marriage" has too much of the religious "holy matrimony" idea to it, I think. I'm all for civil partnership for gays and lesbians. It's only fair that they have full recognition of their relationship. Why should we prevent them from having a partnership? What blooming right have we got to do that?

If marriage, at heart, is a religious ceremony, why does the government perform marriages? There should be a separation between church and state and that separation can't exist if people are performing religious ceremonies to gain state rights.