The Marriage Debate: How far????

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The Marriage Debate: How far????
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Mon, 10-06-2008 - 3:34pm

In CA, we are about to vote on a constitutional amendment on whether marriage should be defined as between a man and woman.

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Registered: 08-25-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 4:11pm

I believe that the state should neither encourage, nor discourage any form of marriage.


You should be able to marry anyone (or more than one) you choose, as long as they are consenting adults, or, perhaps penguins.

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Registered: 07-23-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 4:20pm
I agree. For social and personal issues I am more-or-less libertarian. It's none of the government's business who I marry as long as I am marrying a person who legally can enter into a contract (ie. not a severely mentally handicapped person or a child)




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Mon, 10-06-2008 - 4:28pm

You should be able to marry anyone (or more than one) you choose, as long as they are consenting adults, or, perhaps penguins.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 4:34pm

I don't LIKE these sorts of discussions, because I'm normally labelled something nasty as soon as I admit I don't support some loosening of the current "rules" concerning marriage.

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Mon, 10-06-2008 - 4:46pm

Really, you already invite government into your sacred marriage when you chose to enter into the civic institution of marriage rather than just having a religious ceremony.

 

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Registered: 09-11-2007
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 4:47pm
I am sure the mormons wish the government would butt out and stop telling them their religious views on marridge are wrong too. That's the funny thing about the government ruling based on people's religious views..then we have to agree on who's views to follow and sue. So far as the government is concerned....it's a legal matter...not a religious one....at least that is how it should be. I totally agree with the PP that the government should allow all forms of marridge among consenting adults. I could care less if a man has 4 husbands...or 4 wives......or both. It doesn't make me love my husband less.....or diminish my marridge in the least. I have the right to be happily married...and I think that right should be there for all who choose to love someone enough to commit to them forever ( or at least try..as the current divorce rate shows this is not the case most of the time).
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Mon, 10-06-2008 - 4:50pm

To me, marriage is a sacred thing, one of religious and faith-based definitions.


I think the point is, though, that some churches don't see it as a sin and have no problem marrying two men or two women who obviously consider marriage a sacred thing (as shown by wanting to get married in a church).

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Mon, 10-06-2008 - 4:56pm

But see I have no issues whatsoever with CIVIC unions between any two people of legal age.

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Mon, 10-06-2008 - 4:59pm
I have no issues, either, with Mormon beliefs.
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Mon, 10-06-2008 - 5:18pm

I would entirely agree with you except for the fact that the rights associated with marriage come entirely, 100% from the government and not in the slightest bit from any religious authority. It requires no religion whatsoever to be legally married in any state in the US.

No religion can be compelled to marry anyone it decides it does not want to marry, so no religion is being asked to sanctify same sex marriages if they do not fine this appropriate. Other religions, of course, are quite happy to santify same sex marriages, their decisions on who they will or will not marry do not depend on gender orientation.

Now that same sex marriage is legal in CA, the government is obliged to issue marriage lisences to same sex couples who are entitled to the exact same legal rights and responsiblities as straight married couples. Chruches who do not wish to perform same sex marriages don't perform them, churches that wish to perform them, do perform them -- EVERYONE has freedom of their religious practice.

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