| mrstickball said: They deserve rights, but the real problem is that the government has the authority to deem what is and is not marriage. Marriage is a religious ceremony, and nothing more or less. Therefore, the government does not have the authority to utilize it both against people that would desire religiously-defined marriage to either be enforced, or to enforce alternate views of marriage on the religious. |
Marriage stopped being a religious institution the moment governments started legally binding people together and giving each of them benefits for doing so. You want to remove those rights and benefits? Hey, I'm all for it. But until that time comes, anyone of legal age should be able to marry anyone they choose. The government doesn't have the right to pick and choose who anyone gets to marry.
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