Honestly, I don't see why this is an issue. I can solve this with a quote from Jefferson:
The issue people have nowadays is that marriage has become such a loosely defined word, and now has the vernacular meaning of "union between two people", and that is what they are asking for. They could care less what people think marriage means, they just want the benefits of civil marriage.
There, I smashed anything religion has to do with it. Back your argument with scientific evidence next time.
Damn, that's an old idea, separation of church and state. You know what this means? Your book doesn't mean shit in court, and neither does your religion and its definition of marriage.Thomas Jefferson said:I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.
That's a .gov link (oh snap!)
The issue people have nowadays is that marriage has become such a loosely defined word, and now has the vernacular meaning of "union between two people", and that is what they are asking for. They could care less what people think marriage means, they just want the benefits of civil marriage.
There, I smashed anything religion has to do with it. Back your argument with scientific evidence next time.