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Re: More Election Bad News?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:59:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, J. Spencer Rezkalla wrote:
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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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That is such a simple and elegant solution to the whole debate. I was really
hoping Kerry (or somebody!) would voice this opinion--it’s such a simple,
easy-to-make-sense-of position, compared to his (and others’) “I am against
letting gay people marry, but gay people should have all the same rights as
non-gays”, which I think comes off sounding like much too nuanced of a position,
if not a flat contradiction.
-Brendan
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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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