| If you looked at all those gay marriages that were in the news they were not taking place in churches. It was city hall. There are all sorts of licenses, permits and certificates that one gets at city hall. All gays are asking is that they be allowed to get the same licenses that heteros get.
What people do not seem to get is that the lack of a marriage license has not stopped gays from acting married in every way. All it does it keep them from getting equal treatment under the law.
What the religious have done is conflate a civil license with a sacred ceremony performed in a church. Gays can already get married in churches; they just can’t get a marriage license from city hall. And without that license the state does not recognize them as a family.
The marriage license is not a sex license. It is not a children license. It is not a holy sacrament. All it is is the formal recognition from the state of a new family.
In every other way gays are already forming families and all they lack is that recognition from the state. They are being denied that recognition because of their sexual preference even though one or both of the members of the union my not be able to have sex at all. However hetero couples in the same boat have no trouble getting married. It is discriminatory.
But for some reason people have been blinded by the religious propaganda and do not understand what is actually being prohibited to gays.
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