France legalizes gay marriage despite angry protests

[Zkuq]

aikohualda said:

Zkuq said:
There needs to be to different "marriages": One (without the word 'marriage') for rights in front of law and no religious meaning, and one for religious meaning (with the word 'marriage') without any legal strings attached. Bam, we have a solution! If you're gay and it's really not a religious issue, this is the perfect solution. And if you happen to be religious and are against gay marriage, well, there's no gay marriage anymore and your marriage is purely religious! The perfect solution still!

The only case that I can quickly think of where anyone would have something against this is if they somehow consider gay people lesser individuals that should not have the same rights, in which case they should be ignored because there's absolutely NOTHING pointing to gay people being lesser people.

check encarta's new definition

Why should I care what a dictionary has to say about it? In practice, 'marriage' has a strong religious tone to it because of religious people and that tone isn't going away any time soon, no matter what more free-minded people might think.