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Re: More Election Bad News?
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Sat, 23 Oct 2004 01:05:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, J. Spencer Rezkalla wrote:
> Looks like Proposal 2, a state amendment banning all forms of homosexual unions
> will be passed in Michigan:
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> http://www.detnews.com/2004/politics/0410/22/a01-312436.htm
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> I don't get it. Can't we have the word 'marriage' stricken from all our laws and
> legalese and replaced with the term "civil union", open to all hetro and gay
> couples? Churches can then be free to define their own "marriages" as religious
> (yet non-legal) contracts sanctioned by God?
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> Doesn't that then afford equal rights under the law and yet preserve the
> so-called traditional "definition of marriage"?
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> Spencer
I agree. Government has absolutly no business defining "marriage" be it hetero,
homo, or anything else.
-Orion
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| (...) Exactly right. As a Christain I can no longer place any respect on a government defined or endorsed marriage. And looking back I see that I never should have. A true marriage is a union before God, and it doesn't matter at all what the state (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Looks like Proposal 2, a state amendment banning all forms of homosexual unions will be passed in Michigan: (URL) don't get it. Can't we have the word 'marriage' stricken from all our laws and legalese and replaced with the term "civil union", open (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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