Oklahoma Republican wants to make secular marriage impossible.

[Huggy Bear]

So what? This is neither a defense of discriminatory practices, nor of this specific proposal. At best, it's an argument from tradition, which is obviously fallacious. What's your actual point, here?

Why must everything be a fallacy to you guys? I don't believe you guys actually know what the word means, especially after someone called the concept of "justice" a fallacy.

Since everything must be spelled out for you "critical thinkers", this is the point I was making.

The marriage license in American was used for discriminatory purposes,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws

Anti-miscegenation laws or miscegenation laws were laws that enforced racial segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships by criminalizing interracial marriage and sometimes also sex between members of different races.

So why the surprise if a document invented in order discriminate, is still used to discriminate? And why would you want such a document?

My point in bringing up common law marriages was to show that at one point in (America) time, marriage licenses weren't required, and even now, like 9 states still recognize common law marriage. So the question is, why is something that is a basic human right (you know, the whole life, liberty and pursuit of happiness thing), being made into a privilege by the government?

To be clear, this isn't an issue I care about, there are more pressing issues than gay marriage.