Same sex marriage

[StatCrux]

So a marriage between two people of the same sex is a ridiculous as a marriage between two different species? I thought we'd moved on from the dark ages.

Some of us have.

This one hasn't:

Hey "who the FUCK am I" to say that marriage to cats is wrong? I'm sure cat lovers would use similar arguments to justify their views on marriage

You can say perfectly well that same sex marriage is wrong TO YOU, and for your church.

You don't get to make that decision for other people, or other faiths.

If your Orthodox church wants has as part of it's dogma that marriage is for opposite-sex-only unions, nothing prevents it from doing so, and nothing forces it to perform religious marriages it doesn't wish to. Nor does it prevent you and your church from not recognizing the religious marriages of other churches. That's OK, the government will.

However, you would have your definitions pushed on Unitarians, preventing them from conducting same-sex Unitarian marriage ceremonies in accordance with thier doctrines.

You don't get to do that.

I understand your viewpoint, my argument is that marriage has always been understood as a union between a man and a woman, if people want to have a similar formal and public recognition of commitment and partnership in same sex relationships why are they so determined to call it marriage? why not have a term that describes this other form of alternative unions? why the need to redefine marriage? I'm not saying that same sex unions are "wrong" or inferior I'm simply saying that using the term marriage is wrong