02-21-2004, 01:24 AM
if you really want to seperate church and state, marriage is just the tip of the iceberg. you've got the dollar bill (in god we trust), you've got the pledge of alliegance, and im sure theres plenty of other places where even though the constitution says one thing, the government has gone and co-mingled some sort of religious influence.
we can say, hey lets solve this by making marriage a legal proceeding and whoever is religious can have a ceremony to celebrate it, but you're still going to have bigots and people who people that believe that "God hates fags". You'll still have even moderate people who don't think its wrong but think they shouldnt be able to marry for whatever reason.
society simply is not ready for gay marriage because a majority of this country is based in middle america and has much more conservative values that us on the east and west coast. the best shot gay marriage would have is in the supreme courts that pretty consistantly side with the constitution which pretty clearly protects the civil rights allowed to all people regardless of their sexual orientation.
we can say, hey lets solve this by making marriage a legal proceeding and whoever is religious can have a ceremony to celebrate it, but you're still going to have bigots and people who people that believe that "God hates fags". You'll still have even moderate people who don't think its wrong but think they shouldnt be able to marry for whatever reason.
society simply is not ready for gay marriage because a majority of this country is based in middle america and has much more conservative values that us on the east and west coast. the best shot gay marriage would have is in the supreme courts that pretty consistantly side with the constitution which pretty clearly protects the civil rights allowed to all people regardless of their sexual orientation.
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