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News Discussion / Re: Controversy engulfs France's first gay wedding...
« on: June 04, 2004, 02:09:58 PM »
It's not about forced acceptance for me it's about equality:
Let's not stop at denying same-sex couples the right to marry. Let's deny all people the right to marry under the law. If marriage is such a time honored religious institution then the government (state or federal) has no place to recognize it. Let's establish civil unions, blind to race, gender, etc. to establish stability in household and the rights and privileges guaranteed to present day married couples. Then the church can have its marriage; thus averting the apocalypse that so many people have been referring to. And the religious right can continue along its morally superior, discriminatory, path to save us all. Religion has no place dictating the lives and lawful actions of those in a society founded on the principle of religious freedom. That it is already ingrained in our everyday lives is not a sound argument for perpetuating it's presence. The only purpose it serves is to alienate those who do not believe in the Judeo-Christian establishment, thus infringing on their religious freedom. Government should be secularized and god should be removed from the public sphere.
That's more an American rant, not really related to France.
Let's not stop at denying same-sex couples the right to marry. Let's deny all people the right to marry under the law. If marriage is such a time honored religious institution then the government (state or federal) has no place to recognize it. Let's establish civil unions, blind to race, gender, etc. to establish stability in household and the rights and privileges guaranteed to present day married couples. Then the church can have its marriage; thus averting the apocalypse that so many people have been referring to. And the religious right can continue along its morally superior, discriminatory, path to save us all. Religion has no place dictating the lives and lawful actions of those in a society founded on the principle of religious freedom. That it is already ingrained in our everyday lives is not a sound argument for perpetuating it's presence. The only purpose it serves is to alienate those who do not believe in the Judeo-Christian establishment, thus infringing on their religious freedom. Government should be secularized and god should be removed from the public sphere.
That's more an American rant, not really related to France.
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