USA's most predominate Roman Catholic State just passed Marriage Equality (Same Sex Marriage)

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Zkuq said:

killerzX said:
its not marriage equality. its homosexual couples marriage.

anyway, i just wish the state would get out of marriage. its not the governments job.

This. I do disagree with the second statement, though. Marriage has a legal side as well, and legal matters belong to the government. It's kind of another matter if you wish to strip away the legal side from marriage.

Yes, and no.

There are some rights in the USA that Only come from marriage - and even though it is legal in 10 states + DC, those couples still are missing something like 15,000 Federal rights, including the 5th amendment to the US Constitution, that ONLY come from marriage.

As long as everyone has full access to the same legal civil rights I'm cool it.

Note - there are still some Church that DO NOT allow mixed race marriages, but the government can't separate civil rights in that way.