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Except the topic is about the legality of homosexual marriage, not homosexuality, or the veracity of the Bible, or moral basis, or civil rights. These are all totally different topics that deserve their own topic; if you wish to discuss them you should start a new topic to do so in..

Well, no. The topic is on same sex rights, do they deserve to marry. There was no mention in the OP that the topic was to be expressly litigious. And even if you were right, why would you bring up the Bible at all, if the discussion was purely about the legality of homosexual marriage?


And I don't know about the rest of you, but I consider any discourse into the realm of law to be banal and contrived, hardly the material required to evoke a rousing discussion. I much prefer to discuss morality.

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And I don't know about the rest of you, but I consider any discourse into the realm of law to be banal and contrived, hardly the material required to evoke a rousing discussion. I much prefer to discuss morality.

Then go away; this topic is about the legality of same sex marriage.

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And I don't know about the rest of you, but I consider any discourse into the realm of law to be banal and contrived, hardly the material required to evoke a rousing discussion. I much prefer to discuss morality.

Then go away; this topic is about the legality of same sex marriage.

Amen.

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Then go away; this topic is about the legality of same sex marriage.

Oh then this is easy.

Marriage, as an institution recognized by the government, is completely separate from the religious variant. They coincide, but having a fanciful ceremony in a nice big church with "official" religious persons does not qualify you to be recognized to be married by the government. Not in any legal sense. You have to apply and get a marriage license for the state to recognize it.

Because of the separation of church and state, "marriage should be between a man and a woman," is both irrelevant and an attempt to inject Christian doctrine into what should be a secular nation. Such a policy is in violation of the legal precedent set forward by the supreme court and the rights guaranteed to all people by the bill of rights. It is an egregious form of discrimination to allow such a thing.