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RE: Define Marriage
May 18, 2015 at 2:40 am (This post was last modified: May 18, 2015 at 2:41 am by robvalue.)
Marriage is nothing to do with religion anymore, that's what people need to get through their heads.

It can optionally have a religious ceremony, or any other ceremony. But the ceremony, or what the person running the ceremony says in addition to what is required by law, is not the marriage. The legal contract is the marriage. If two people get "married" in a church, but the marriage license is not legally issued, then they are not married.

And since no one is forcing theists to get married to anyone they don't want to, forcing them to get married outside a church, or even forcing churches to perform certain weddings, it boggles my mind that some theists think they have the right to dictate how the legal contract should operate among people who share none of their religious beliefs.
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Define Marriage - by Neo-Scholastic - April 19, 2015 at 5:50 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Regina - April 19, 2015 at 5:52 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Grandizer - April 19, 2015 at 5:54 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Pyrrho - April 19, 2015 at 5:56 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 19, 2015 at 5:56 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by *Deidre* - April 19, 2015 at 6:02 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by pocaracas - April 19, 2015 at 6:04 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Cato - April 19, 2015 at 6:13 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Regina - April 19, 2015 at 6:46 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by cocunningham - April 19, 2015 at 10:52 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Esquilax - April 20, 2015 at 12:33 am
RE: Define Marriage - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - April 19, 2015 at 6:21 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Minimalist - April 19, 2015 at 6:23 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Jenny A - April 19, 2015 at 6:36 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Nope - April 19, 2015 at 6:47 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Regina - April 19, 2015 at 6:50 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by *Deidre* - April 19, 2015 at 6:53 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Esquilax - April 19, 2015 at 6:54 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by vorlon13 - April 19, 2015 at 6:59 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Iroscato - April 19, 2015 at 7:01 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Faith No More - April 19, 2015 at 7:03 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Mr.wizard - April 19, 2015 at 7:07 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by *Deidre* - April 19, 2015 at 8:07 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Brian37 - April 19, 2015 at 8:14 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 19, 2015 at 8:16 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by *Deidre* - April 19, 2015 at 9:08 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Minimalist - April 19, 2015 at 10:01 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Silver - April 19, 2015 at 10:05 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Jackalope - April 19, 2015 at 10:08 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Minimalist - April 19, 2015 at 10:23 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Jackalope - April 19, 2015 at 10:28 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Chad32 - April 19, 2015 at 10:54 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Silver - April 19, 2015 at 10:55 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by CapnAwesome - April 19, 2015 at 10:57 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Anomalocaris - April 19, 2015 at 11:03 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by CapnAwesome - April 19, 2015 at 11:04 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Minimalist - April 19, 2015 at 11:36 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Longhorn - April 20, 2015 at 1:19 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Minimalist - April 20, 2015 at 1:24 am
RE: Define Marriage - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - April 20, 2015 at 3:13 am
RE: Define Marriage - by bennyboy - April 20, 2015 at 6:44 am
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 20, 2015 at 8:46 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Mudhammam - April 20, 2015 at 8:58 am
RE: Define Marriage - by pocaracas - April 20, 2015 at 9:02 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Mudhammam - April 20, 2015 at 9:08 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Nope - April 20, 2015 at 9:16 am
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 20, 2015 at 9:09 am
RE: Define Marriage - by pocaracas - April 20, 2015 at 9:19 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Longhorn - April 20, 2015 at 9:25 am
RE: Define Marriage - by pocaracas - April 20, 2015 at 9:31 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Longhorn - April 20, 2015 at 9:37 am
RE: Define Marriage - by pocaracas - April 20, 2015 at 9:48 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Longhorn - April 20, 2015 at 9:54 am
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 20, 2015 at 9:49 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Hatshepsut - April 20, 2015 at 10:26 am
RE: Define Marriage - by FatAndFaithless - April 20, 2015 at 10:28 am
RE: Define Marriage - by rexbeccarox - April 20, 2015 at 10:31 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Hatshepsut - April 20, 2015 at 12:45 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Neo-Scholastic - April 20, 2015 at 12:56 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Longhorn - April 20, 2015 at 1:30 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Pyrrho - April 20, 2015 at 2:01 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Faith No More - April 20, 2015 at 2:58 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by rexbeccarox - April 20, 2015 at 1:09 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 20, 2015 at 1:34 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 20, 2015 at 2:02 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Pyrrho - April 20, 2015 at 2:13 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 20, 2015 at 2:17 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Pyrrho - April 20, 2015 at 2:25 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 20, 2015 at 2:28 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Neo-Scholastic - April 20, 2015 at 2:50 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by *Deidre* - April 20, 2015 at 2:52 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Longhorn - April 20, 2015 at 2:56 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Brakeman - April 20, 2015 at 6:56 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Pyrrho - April 20, 2015 at 11:08 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Nope - April 20, 2015 at 11:22 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Cato - April 21, 2015 at 7:43 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Hatshepsut - April 21, 2015 at 1:45 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Thumpalumpacus - May 16, 2015 at 1:14 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Nope - May 17, 2015 at 6:42 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Pyrrho - May 17, 2015 at 9:12 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Fidel_Castronaut - May 18, 2015 at 3:29 am
RE: Define Marriage - by abentwookie - May 18, 2015 at 1:50 am
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 20, 2015 at 2:53 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Mudhammam - April 20, 2015 at 3:03 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Hatshepsut - April 20, 2015 at 6:07 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 20, 2015 at 3:06 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Iroscato - April 20, 2015 at 3:10 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 20, 2015 at 3:17 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Minimalist - April 20, 2015 at 6:17 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Nope - April 20, 2015 at 8:11 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 20, 2015 at 10:10 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Silver - April 20, 2015 at 11:14 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Polaris - April 20, 2015 at 11:24 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Kitty Galore - April 21, 2015 at 1:10 am
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 21, 2015 at 1:19 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Kitty Galore - April 21, 2015 at 3:21 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Nope - April 21, 2015 at 7:09 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Pyrrho - April 21, 2015 at 5:41 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 21, 2015 at 7:26 am
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 22, 2015 at 1:51 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Silver - April 22, 2015 at 2:00 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Hatshepsut - April 22, 2015 at 8:35 am
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - April 22, 2015 at 2:03 am
Define Marriage - by ajarnfalang - April 22, 2015 at 11:09 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Pyrrho - May 16, 2015 at 12:46 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Whateverist - May 16, 2015 at 1:33 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by dyresand - May 16, 2015 at 7:03 pm
RE: Define Marriage - by Whateverist - May 18, 2015 at 1:54 am
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - May 18, 2015 at 12:51 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Silver - May 18, 2015 at 1:57 am
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - May 18, 2015 at 2:33 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Silver - May 18, 2015 at 2:35 am
RE: Define Marriage - by robvalue - May 18, 2015 at 2:40 am
RE: Define Marriage - by Pyrrho - May 18, 2015 at 9:12 am

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