Australia legalizes same sex marriage

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Locknuts said:

 

Sorry that you don't believe all Australian-born citizens should be seen and treated as equals in the eyes of the law.

Well that's just an assumption on your part. I think people should be treated as equals and that marriage as an institution should be taken away from government control. Every couple should be able to register themselves as a couple with the government (gay or straight) but that marriage as an institution should only be performed by religious institutions. Then everyone's happy.

So then you'd deny marriage to atheists?   Marriage didn't become a scarament in the christian church until after 1000 AD.  So why give churches control over secular personal relationships?