There are legal rights only granted to spouses, ranging from medical to tax-related. How does whether a preacher presidse over the union or not have any bearing on whether those rights are warranted? If you think that from a economic and legal standpoint, civil unions have no purpose, then religious unions have no purpose in that light either.
Civil laws and customs granting such rights or privileges to marriage are recognizing a long-standing and wide-spread practice. Laws granting those same privileges to same-sex partnerships are imposing a novelty practice. There is no basis for same sex marriage, because the practices and customs associated with marriage originate with the difference in genders, a situation which does not apply to same-sex unions.
Cannoli
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
I may have lost a friend over same sex marriage
- 17/01/2010 08:03:26 AM
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the problem with your friend is the "southern evangelical christian" part
- 17/01/2010 09:07:02 AM
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They believe gay marriage is ongoing unrepentant sin.
- 17/01/2010 12:04:58 PM
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God your a moron.
- 17/01/2010 09:10:17 PM
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That was remarkably unconstructive.
- 18/01/2010 12:13:45 AM
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youll have to excuse Adam, he is a Heathen, its not his fault 
*NM*
- 18/01/2010 06:26:34 AM
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*NM*
- 18/01/2010 06:26:34 AM
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Ad hominems w/o substance are never excusable, especially in one who knows beter: They're forfeits.
- 18/01/2010 06:39:33 AM
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<shrug> They can believe that all that they like
- 18/01/2010 08:07:28 PM
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And live accordingly. Just like everyone else.
- 18/01/2010 11:10:51 PM
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You can't use logic in an irrational argument.
- 17/01/2010 10:12:11 AM
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LOL... *NM*
- 18/01/2010 05:21:14 AM
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You and Adam are being equally unconstructive.
- 18/01/2010 06:21:45 AM
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First, I'm nothing at all like Adam.
- 18/01/2010 06:33:54 AM
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I was similarly unclear what prompted the comments, but I only needed you to elaborate a little.
- 18/01/2010 07:37:43 AM
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Not much of a friend then. Good ridance to bad friends. *NM*
- 17/01/2010 08:51:02 PM
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I agree. A friend who can't respect differences of opinion is no friend at all. *NM*
- 17/01/2010 09:11:33 PM
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seriously. *NM*
- 17/01/2010 10:46:17 PM
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Only because such sentiment is my pet peeve...condemning exclusivity is hypocritical. *NM*
- 19/01/2010 12:37:37 AM
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It forces other people to accept THEIR ideology that same sex unions are legitimate.
- 18/01/2010 01:49:20 AM
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I would assume, then, that you don't support any government-mandated health care?
- 18/01/2010 02:07:40 AM
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Correct
- 18/01/2010 04:29:04 AM
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Although I disagree with the vast majority of your arguments,
- 18/01/2010 08:50:09 AM
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Thank you.
- 20/01/2010 01:47:34 AM
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Please tell me you have a source for that quotation. Other than me.
- 21/01/2010 12:31:27 PM
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It's GK Chesterton! What the hell are you going on about?
- 27/01/2010 02:41:00 AM
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we do not exist in a free market.
- 18/01/2010 04:09:37 AM
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And that's bad. Since when has the correct response to oppression been "accept further oppression"? *NM*
- 18/01/2010 04:30:44 AM
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I am simply pointing out your arguments do not apply to the present economic environment.
- 18/01/2010 04:46:04 AM
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That's utter nonsense.
- 18/01/2010 04:19:57 AM
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Re: That's utter nonsense.
- 18/01/2010 04:41:27 AM
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civil marriages DO have a purpose.
- 18/01/2010 04:49:12 AM
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Re: civil marriages DO have a purpose.
- 19/01/2010 10:47:18 PM
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Re: That's utter nonsense.
- 18/01/2010 07:15:50 AM
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Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
- 18/01/2010 07:49:27 AM
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- 18/01/2010 07:49:27 AM
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I really dont like the idea of a black person marrying a white person
- 18/01/2010 06:36:26 AM
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That's such an amusing argument
- 18/01/2010 08:17:15 PM
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And you're fairly appalling in either pretending to misunderstand free markets or in your stupidity
- 27/01/2010 03:00:21 AM
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I'm against people with pasta based nicknames on fantasy forums *NM*
- 19/01/2010 03:03:31 PM
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cannoli is a pastry 
*NM*
- 19/01/2010 07:25:04 PM
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*NM*
- 19/01/2010 07:25:04 PM
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I have no problem with people with pastry based names, just pasta
- 21/01/2010 12:28:44 AM
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you acept your friends with their warts or you don't
- 18/01/2010 06:45:13 PM
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I think you missed who was the one to walk out *NM*
- 18/01/2010 08:01:25 PM
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I don't think it was that clear
- 18/01/2010 10:01:32 PM
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