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Originally Posted by sycamore
I think Wolf has had the best solution thus far: replace "marriage" with "civil union" across the board.
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This remains my position. Marriage is a RELIGIOUS contract, and should remain so. What's really at issue here is a civil contract ... a union/division of property rights, really. The Marriage license presented by most states is the civil permission for a union, that's not in effect until someone pronounces the necessary holy words (of the religion(s) of the couple's choice). There are people who are married religiously, not civilly. I know that my coworker's Quaker Meeting has solemnized several gay unions.
Homosexuals are as entitled to the misery of divorce as straight people. But don't call it marriage.