greed and death wrote:Grave_n_idle wrote:It's not even a respectable thing. So it's 'doing a terrible thing for a terrible reason'.
Whats the terribleness.
You marry and mail in your forms the state views you as married, as does the federal government.
The only one cut out is the justice of the peace so a handle full of couples can't use the justice of the piece as a substitute for a ceremony.
Instead they get their friend to download a church of universal life ordination.
The common conservative-christian complaint about gay couples being allowed to marry is that it 'redefines' marriage. Of course it doesn't - it just applies it more equally - but that's the complaint.
The 'terribleness' here is that this actually
does 'redefine' marriage.
I don't mind other people being married. Or NOT being married, if they like. I
do object to someone saying that because they don't like something about someone ELSE's marriage, they are going to invalidate MY marriage.