| mesoteto said: thats not what i said and i am sorry if that seemed to be implied "Then why not just call it marriage"
b/c it is not marriage to me or my faith, marriage is and should stay a uniting of a man and a woman"
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Once again (we are going in circles here), why should your faith affect government legislation? Its not like the government is taking away your right to marry. You are losing a perceived "right", that somehow preventing other people from marrying makes your life better.
But once again, the preservation of that right is less valuable than the cost to other people. Why should a substantive right be taken away from other people just because it makes you happier? Should black people have to wear green and orange socks because it makes me happier? What you are losing is not a right. You can still worship your religion and no substantive right of yours has been taken away. You may feel that way, but that is just your perception.
And what about Aztecs? If we had an Aztec cult in American and a fundamental part of their religion is human sacrifice, aren't we infringing upon their rights to not let them sacrifice people? By your logic, they should be able to do it. By my logic they shouldn't because they are infringing upon someone else's right, and the government has a higher interest in protecting infringement upon natural rights before it concerns itself with infringing upon religious "rights".
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