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Originally posted by Cleo@Jan 21 2004, 11:09 AM
As I see it they said that everyone should have equal rights. Why is it that so many seem to have a problem with this?
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Because by definition a marriage is a union between a man and a woman as husband and wife.
The laws they were interpreting weren't discussing common-law unions, they were discussing marriage.
There's no religion involved there, no morality involved there. Just a simple textbook definition that the judges completely ignored.
I think the gays who want to be married are going down the wrong road. All they have to do is take the word "marriage" out of it and they'd pull all the wind out of the sails of their opposition.
Yes, it's just semantics, but it's effective. Marriage has long, deep roots as an established institution of a union between a man and a woman. So quit trying to break into that. Don't play by their rules... make up a new game.