(February 27, 2015 at 11:00 pm)Lek Wrote: Government has the business of ensuring peoples' rights are upheld. I believe if you give certain legal rights to one type of adult couple that right should be available to other types of adult couples, whether they are married or not.
Under the law, marriage is a contract, and government has been involved in marriage for centuries because of that. The laws provide protections for property rights, inheritance, and more.
Quote:I can be married without the government's consent and with no legal contract just by my wife and me pledging ourselves to each other.
But that is not legal marriage, protected by law. You are conflating terms.
Quote:The government deciding to change the meaning of marriage to encompass two people of the same sex is akin to a college declaring that fraternities now consist of men and women. They would be redefining an institution that is dear to many. Fraternities were established first, and then when women wanted a similar organization, they didn't proceed to change the definition of fraternities to include women, but rather established a similar organization for women.
Except there are women's fraternities and coed fraternities.
"Fraternity is usually understood to mean a social organization composed only of men, and sorority one of women, although many women's organizations also refer to themselves as fraternities."
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