Let's see, we are near a system failure. The people vote, Marriage is defined as a "Man and Woman. Then we have a lesbian Attorney General fail to preform her duty and defend the will of the people before a Gay Judge. The peoples law is overturned by default! That is pretty fucked up abuse of the system.
Oh Come on Maris! You put that article out there and it affirms Marriage is between a man and woman! Happier in England? Is that all you've got?
I was in Brunei once. Took some civilians out of there under the watchful eye of a six shooter standing by off shore, with fire control tracking a back pack carburetor. A .45 at the hip is good, six five inch at ready call is even better.
That's right on, Don't ask, don't tell, because I don't need to know and don't want to know. No need to bring up Leviticus that way
Props to everyone so definitive in their answers/opinions. I'm still trying to figure out if marriage is a legal thing, a religious thing, or a mixture of both. And how you can operate them separately. I know all of the arguments, but it's the mere exercise of processing all of my thoughts through my head and arriving at a conscious set of thoughts or beliefs that I have yet to do. So I don't have any answers and beliefs because I'm okay with the religious meaning of marriage, and I'm okay with defining legal marriage separately. I love my gay friends and family, and hope they get everything out of life that they so choose. Ultimately, I do not care to make any decisions for anyone but myself. But I do know one thing: love is love.
Right on Blazin! There is the religious and the civil definition, No sense in changing the traditional definitions when allowing civil Unions would handle the legal and not harm the religious (or at least their can get over it). However, it appears the Gay community is not happy with this answer, they want to change the meaning of Marriage and to hell with anyone else and their beliefs. Most Christians and other religious people do not have civil marriages because they want the sanctification in their religion. It doesn't appear the Gays care one little bit about this aspect of the meaning of the word, as they would abolish that meaning.
I am also in favor of the state getting out of the marriage license game, just a cheap money grab. Do away with all tax breaks for marriage too. Then everyone can get married to whomever they want and it won't fucking matter at all to anyone ever.
Yeah. Just have marriage be some random ass title that don't mean shit. Ain't no one needed to be married and get all these tax breaks and shit. fuck that son. And tax breaks to have kids.
Civil Unions are currently not equal to marriages in the legal sense. They afford different rights. It also because a "separate but equal" issue even if you had two words for it.
