My major concern is legal rights, I've always been an advocate of "what consenting adults do on their own time is their own business", If two people want to spend the rest of their lives together, they should be afforded all of the rights and responsibilities that it entails.
Our society has wrapped this up in a nice religious package by stamping the word "marriage" on it. We've given religious officials the power to perform legally binding ceremonies, and by proxy the authority to dictate who get's the "privilege". -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer SSTWebworks 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC. 27616 (703) 220-2835 http://www.sstwebworks.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/sstwebworks Boycott Sys-Con http://www.sstwebworks.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/16/Boycotting-SysCon -----Original Message----- From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 4:27 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: gay marriage, was RE: Boy Scouts Of America (starts from Gruss' last response) OK. Fine. But the gov't should use the same language for everyone, then. As in, "I went before the judge to get a civil union with my girlfriend". If the term "marriage" has any legal standing, then it should be applied across-the-board. Also, if a "marriage" is a religious- or culturally-based moniker, then there is absolutely nothing stopping any church or other non-government organization from performing marriages. --BenD Scott Stewart wrote: > Why? (not trying to stir up a shitstorm). > Isn't "marriage" a church function? > Shouldn't the government only recognize the union of a man and a woman, man > and man, woman and woman. And leave church sanctioning out of it? > > I'm all for gay couples having the same rights as hetero couples, but I > don't think that the word "marriage" should stand in the way of that. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245919 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
