The People have spoken - Marriage Equality wins in Maine, Maryland and Washington!

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JazzB1987 said:
Is this about marriage in a church or marriage in a registry office (I have no idea how the marriage procedure is in the states so excuse me if the question makes no sense. In my country there is the above mentioned seperation church and "registry office")


If its for the registry office one im totally okay with it. But If its for the church one well I dunno.

Lets say you are really into religion and you "obey" the rules then you can actually not be gay since men belong to women and being gay is against the "rules".

So you ignore a rule and then still want to marry inside a church? Makes no sense to me people need to be consistent not switch sides etc. ( You cant just accept the parts of the religion that suit your current lifestyle... and ignore the rest) Built your own type of mosque/church/synagogue ;) or "rent" a castle or some other romantic place.

And if you dont care about religion there is no way you should be able to marry inside a church anyway.

So thats what I dont understand.

It is up to the church whether or not they marry you, even with legalised same-sex marriages.

All the legalisation would do is allow any religious institution that wanted to conduct a same-sex marriage, to conduct one. So a Quaker church, or a liberal Protestant/Catholic church, or the place of worship of any religion not opposed to same-sex marriage.

I agree that forcing any institution to carry out the ceremony would be unacceptable, and so do 95%+ of the people who support marriage equality.

I am firmly of the belief, anyway, that marriage is an entirely secular and governmental affair, and if it is recognised at all by the government (an argument could be made that it should not be), then religion should not be involved at all.