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 @98F3Y6QDemocrat from Ohio commented…1yr1Y

You say “just” as if it’s easy to create a new tax code and institution. There is no reason that the government shouldn’t recognize gay marriages. The government should be secular. If churches don’t want to recognize gay marriages, you could make the argument that they are free not to. But the government has no obligation to uphold the “spiritual”, and should be free to issue unions regardless of whether it makes priests angry.

 @96NVSBDDemocrat from California commented…1yr1Y

Separate but equal has never worked in our history. Marriage can have two definitions, just like many words

  1. Legal marriage- the one that protects benefits
  2. Religious marriage- the one some folks optionally take, and even straight folks might not.

I am straight, and married, but not in a church. My marriage is not religious. My pastor would not marry me and my husband and without going to counseling to force him into the same Christian sect as me (I was in an evangelical church, he was raised Catholic)

If you want the government to not use the word marriage, argue for them not to use it EVER. We can all legally have civil unions not marriages.

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