Originally posted by mattskramer
LMAO LMAO - You live in a fantasy world don't you?!? I have never read such a patently wrong post. Sheesh. It is even more ludicrous than OCA' s posts. How delusional can yo be? As I have pointed out time after time. There is no sound and logical reason to deny homosexual marriage. Every attempt at making an argument opposing gay marriage has been clearly refuted, primarily by me. Everything from "it is not natural it is abnormal" to "gays molest children" (both arguments being irrelevant) to All that is left is "I don't want it to be allowed".
You may call my argument against gay marriage one of semantics if you wish, but I'll bring it up again. For most christians the idea that a gay couple can be married is a real head scratcher. God says marriage is between man and woman. Marriage is a religously derived term, therefore HOW IS IT BIOLOGICALLY POSSIBLE FOR A GAY COUPLE TO BE MARRIED? Answer: it isn't.
Someone brought that marriage is defined by states. It may have been you, matt. I can't remeber. Here is where the gov't made a mistake. The gov't chose to use the word marriage to define a couple not for the sake of the institution, but more likely for tax purposes and record keeping. When you go to the court house you get a "marriage" license, simply because that is the word the gov't adopted to describe the union of a man and woman in legal terms. At the time that probably seemed okay because a hundred years ago, or whenever the gov't adopted the term, homosexuality wasn't a part of society(publickly anyway). Realy a hundred years ago who could imngine that a man could be romantic with another man much less get married to one?
the point is the gov't does not define marriage. They only recognize it as union between a couple. Marriage is a completely, religously derived term. Coming from a religion that opposes homosexuality.
My solution is simple. If you want to be married, get it done in a church. As far as the gov't goes, fill out a union license or whatever you want to call it, for gay and hetero couples.
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the gov't recognize various configurations as legal for tax purposes and such. i.e. hetero, gay, polygamy, etc.