Is it? For most of our civilization's history the church was not involved in marriage - until the mid to late medieval era.Well before and well after that, the main idea of marriage was property and wealth consolidation. For many in the early history of the US marriage was not a religious ceremony. If anything it was not much more than an agreement between couples For instance slaves were banned from marriage, but they still married, and in the far west frontier, religious ministers were few and far between but marriages still happened.
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> civil union and domestic partnerships don't mean the same thing >> as marriage. Take the government out of the picture and it would just >> be that you are married or you live with someone you love. > > > Marriage really is a religious institution, and from that perspective I > continue to say that if a particular church doesn't want to marry gay > people, they don't have to. That's fine by me. > > But marriage isn't "only" a religious institution. It's also a civil and > governmentally recognized label with a very specific legal meaning. From > that standpoint, there really should be equality. > > -Cameron > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:362252 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
