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Re: More Election Bad News?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Sat, 23 Oct 2004 06:39:02 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Orion Pobursky wrote:
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:

http://www.detnews.com/2004/politics/0410/22/a01-312436.htm

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?

Doesn't that then afford equal rights under the law and yet preserve the
so-called traditional "definition of marriage"?

Spencer

I agree.  Government has absolutly no business defining "marriage" be it hetero,
homo, or anything else.

-Orion

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 says.  They shouldn't be in the business of issuing marriage liscenses at
all - that is a duty of the church or of whatever non-religious non-governmental
system you want to use if you don't identify with a church.

-Matt :)



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(...) What about this: Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) I agree. Government has absolutly no business defining "marriage" be it hetero, homo, or anything else. -Orion (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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