WSJ: Democracy loses if Prop. 8 is overturned.

[steven787]

rocketpig said:

steven787 said:
You lost me?

Marriage is religious. Some taxes are based on Marriage. Therefore, the government is using religion to decide how much to tax who.

Even if it is religious (which it's not, you can be married entirely separate from any religious entity and rely on the state entirely for it), your question begs another question:

Which religion? Do we go back to the Greeks? Or, for the sake of pandering to the religious right's argument, restrict it to monotheism?

People have been married long before Christianity ever came about. I don't see how they think it's okay to claim the practice as their own now, especially with all the crazy religions we have in the world today.

 

 

I think you guys (Rocket, Real Mafoo and Kasz) misunderstand my use of the word religious, I'm sorry for not being more clear.  Religion is a very complex word and isn't so easily defined.  Theologist argue the meaning of the word.  From a anthropological point of view Religion isn't always tied to a diety or the supernatural, it is at it's simplest form the system a behaviors and morality that control.

Marriage is definitely a part of a system of behaviors and morality that control.  So even if you still don't think it's religious, I'm still pretty sure from your other posts, that you agree, that the government should not be involved with those types of things (unless said behavior is damaging).