Australia legalizes same sex marriage

[Locknuts]

niallyb said:

Locknuts said:

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?

Well I wouldn't. That would be up to religious leaders. Not necessarily Christian ones either, any religion that has traditionally practiced marriages should be allowed to continue. It would have no bearing on their legal status of being in a Union. It would be a separation of Church and state.