This is just BS, Ake. THere is no way in which one couple's marriage lessens the civil rights of another. Christianity has nothing to do with any of it.

Unless you are talking about the Chrostian sanctification, which has nothing to do with the legal and civil status.

There is ZERO reduction of others' rights by having the legal status of marriage offered equally without regard to gender preference. To claim there is is to allow oneself to fall freely into the deep end of kookiness.

And the difference between the CIVIL rights and privileges is all we are talking about. I don't give a shit what one bunch of religionists or another thinks about the issue from a religious perspective--that's their business. But marriage has always had a legal definition which is not being changed by extending it to couples who are gay.


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