Obama Care is a social issue? Just when I thought it was a tax.
Obama Care is a social issue? Just when I thought it was a tax.
Without getting into the rest of your statement, i think there are two parts to this issue about defining marriage.
The first, and perhaps biggest, reason that this had to happen was that so many laws were written around the word 'marriage' and civil unions didn't rise to the same level. I.e. couples in a civil union were still excluded from many of the legal protections/items that 'marriage' provided. Plus, why create two levels of legal definitions when it wasn't needed?
Second, there has never been a religious requirement for marriage. All marriages were lumped together. It was only when sam-sex couples started trying to get married that we had this knee-jerk reaction to define what a marriage should be.
If people want to separate out the two, that's great, but that'd mean getting the government out of the 'marriage' business, which has been discussed.
You fellas are as dense as bricks. Arguing over what a non-living, non-human, non-entity "says" to do. Ya'll living in Plato's Cave. I can understand the position of those who reject the idea of the Creator existing but reading what so called religious people write who are living and obeying dictates of a non-existent shadow world is priceless. Your master is not God but yourselves and the fools you choose to be your masters. Simply priceless. 
I fully agree with the government getting out of the marriage business. And the issue could have been resolved without redefining the word.
What I am reading is some pathetic trolling. Perhaps you should man-up and simply admit you are a bigot? That way it puts your credibility into perspective.
Didn't say it was?
Likely so. I guess i should have asked how you feel it has been redefined exactly.
Also, if you're interested in an interesting book, and haven't already read it, check out "The Professor and the Madman"
it's the story of the oxford english dictionary and how words came to mean the things they do.
Pot meet Kettle.
Again, folks, lets please keep this civil.
You fellas are as dense as bricks. Arguing over what a non-living, non-human, non-entity "says" to do. Ya'll living in Plato's Cave. I can understand the position of those who reject the idea of the Creator existing but reading what so called religious people write who are living and obeying dictates of a non-existent shadow world is priceless. Your master is not God but yourselves and the fools you choose to be your masters. Simply priceless.
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