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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
But marriage by religion should carry no more or less weight than that conducted as a civil contract. The religion aspect is nothing more than ceremony, not same thing, more special or important than the civil contract, unless you want to believe that, and if you do more power to ya. Just don't say I have to think like you do....
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i'm saying that the country should treat it like any contract without any special requirements (Such as gender) or benefits (such as tax), but any religion can do as it pleases regarding who they will make such a contract for and its content.
if the if the knights that says ni doesn't want to marry people who say oy, or if the catholic church doesn't want to marry gay people, its there choice, and if the mormons exclusivity shouldn't be part of the contract or should only apply to the wife, and the holy cockhold fetish club wants cheating to be a wife's duty, its there choice.
if your religion doesn't give you the kind of ceramony you want, its your choice of religion and your damn problem.
FYI - i'm a tea pot agnostic jew (a religion that doens't allow you to marry a non jewish women) who got married in a civil ceramony to an agnositc women with mormon upbringing (a religion that believes we're fake jews)... there's really nothing holy there :p