(November 20, 2013 at 7:59 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Esquilax, I never said that Christians invented marriage. I said that the religious and civil aspects of it had been entangled and it would be preferable to untangle them. How can you promote "separation of church and state" on every issue except this one?
No, the religious and civil aspects are not entangled. Marriage can be a completely secular endeavor, however, some people choose to add religious aspects to it. What you are proposing is allowing your religion to hijack the term simply because you object to allowing a certain minority perform a union and label it that term. It's just another case of Christianity over-reaching and thinking the secular world should bend over backwards for it, but thankfully, the secular world, which actually includes many Christians, are sick and tired of it.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell