| What is simple about families? You have allowed the godbots to confuse the issue. This was never about marriage. It has always been about families. Family members die, they get sick, they win the lottery, they own property, they get inheritances, they retire and on and on and on. I take it you have never had a family of your own. There are a lot of laws that you need. If you were in the hospital and you could not make your own medical decisions would you want your spouse who has been living with you for the last thirty years to make those decisions or your brother who you only see every several years for a few days to make them? If the hospital doesn't recognize your spouse as your family then what do you think is gonna happen? This is a very practical concern of families. There are thousands of issues like this when it comes to families. The marriage ceremony is nothing. This is about the marriage certificate not the ceremony. It is that certificate that is the government’s formal recognition that a couple is now a family and now has all the rights of such a family. This is the issue. It has always been the issue. As I have said ad nauseum, gays are already going to churches and getting married in the eyes of god. It is in the eye of the state where they lack such recognition. What is so weird is that somehow the godbots have managed to confuse the weak minded into somehow conflating recognition of the marriage by god with recognition from the state and then just completely ignoring that gays can already get the recognition of god.
Starboy |