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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
"The church" should be banned.
Want to pretend you have an invisible friend in the clouds? Fine. Do it at home.
Churches are a blight on society. Make them pay taxes like the rest of us, or ban them.
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I think that's a bit acute (the ban part). You don't have to be theistic to blithely follow gospel. There are plenty of atheistic denominations with special interests, some of which will inevitably have their heads in the clouds too. If anything, it's the government that should be banned from instituting such legislature.
The issue is more of equality than anything else; why should any of the competing schools be granted exceptional legal status? Remember we came (are still coming) from theistic roots, and even since the Enlightenment there's still a lot of vestigial theism. In that sense resistance toward gay marriage shouldn't be much of a surprise... society and indeed government still have quite a way to go in terms of diverging from the church.
I guess it's as KILL_FRENZY suggests (and I speak very generally here), you're probably not solving any problems by derailing religious people who by very nature have chosen to follow rather than lead in their own judgement. There's every chance they'll just align to another ill conceived cause... there's far less merit in persuasion than there is choice.