(July 9, 2015 at 12:13 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(July 8, 2015 at 11:59 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: The government recognizes many unions of multiple people regularly for the purpose of respecting and restricting rights. It calls those unions corporations, and allows those multiple partners to join their finances together in order to achieve that goal of maximizing profits.
Why should the government not extend the same benefit to people who wish to join together in order to attain a non-financial goal? And so long as you're not involved in such an arrangement, why is it any of your business, Cathy?
Just curious to hear yall's views on this, that's all.
Sheesh, is it a full moon tonight or something? Lol.
Given the position of your Church on this matter, my question is pertinent. You've made it plain that you adhere to Church doctrine on everything else; I assume that you aren't going to disobey orders about how you should feel regarding marriage as well.
Now, perhaps I'm wrong, and you're fine with polygamy, or the other slippery-slope ideas your priests put out in arguing against gay marriage. Maybe you actually support those things, and that's cool.
I get tired of hearing about how some church or some god or some government must give its imprimatur to the love of two or more human beings. I think such authoritarian overreach is obnoxious. I'm glad the SCOTUS struck down gay marriage bans, and I think that if five men and seven women want to get married, they can carry their happy asses down to a lawyer, draw up a contract, and to hell with the validation of gods, priests, or IRS agents.
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