TheRealMafoo said:
WessleWoggle said:
mrstickball said:
The issue is that we've blurred the lines between what marriage is (a union between a man and a woman, ordained by God) and a civil union (co-habitation with legal rights).
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The issue is, marriage is not for you or religion to define.
It's for the government to define, and they shouldn't define it religiously.
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What? That's like saying:
The issue is, god is not for you or religion to define.
It's for the government to define, and they shouldn't define it religiously.
Marriage is a product of religion. The problem is government recognizing marriage as anything, not that religion shouldn't define it.
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I think that's a bad example, god is for the individual to define.
Also, marriage is not the product of religion. Go study some tribal peoples, lots of marriages have nothing to do with religion. Marriage is a product of the fact that women have children, and cultures usually think children need to be cared for by both their parents, thus there's a ceremony to ensure that. Or, marriage is to make sure we don't just all fuck like wild animals, by binding the man to the women before he can do her.
