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Originally Posted by Kevin Marx
Marriage is something that's religious in nature. Leave marriage up to the religions. If someone can find a religion to marry them as homosexuals, then have at it.
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Anyone can find a religion to marry them. The problem is our LAWS recognize 'some marriages' as legal and others as 'non legal.' A legal marriage means your spouse is protected from testifying against you by marital privilege, can get access to your family health coverage, has rights if you die without a will, can visit you in the hospital if you are in an accident... a non-legal marriage doesn't give a person any of those same rights.
Before you suggest we make a 'civil union' law that gives the same rights but is not a marriage... keep in mind we already tried 'separate but equal' with black people and it failed miserably back in the 1960s.
If you want to take away all legal rights given to married people under our Laws, great. If you want to give the SAME legal rights to anyone married to anyone else under our laws, great. What you can not do is give some married people legal rights and not give other married people the same legal rights. That much should be very clear to anyone born after the 1700s
