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Sorry mate, marriage isn't just religious. It's also societal, and Governmental. Many, many people get married outside of church, and for entirely nonreligious
by vertex-four 9y ago
Sorry mate, marriage isn't just religious. It's also societal, and Governmental. Many, many people get married outside of church, and for entirely nonreligious reasons - do you speak out against those as well as much as you do marriage between people of the same sex? What about people of a different religion getting married against your religion's rules?
By the way - last time I looked into this, marriage predates organised religion, and definitely predates Christianity. If your intention is to maintain a Christian country to the detriment of those following other religions or none at all, at least be honest about it.
- saiya-jin 9y agoI couldn't care less about this topic, but isn't what registered partnership is for? You get all the governmental entitlements, right to visit in hospital, inheritance and whatnot, without any religious context. Minus all the nasty potential divorce stuff (unless thats what you're after). And yes, marriage is historically definitely also religious, at least that's how our society evolved in last 2000 years. During pagan times it were also priests/shamans/whatever that were performing them in one way or another.
- d4rti 9y agoPaul thinks Christians shouldn't marry http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/marriage.html http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/marriage.html
- neves 9y agoOther day I read a story a story in NYT (sorry, couln't find it) about a gay couple. They had a large age gap, and since there was no option to legally marry, they decided the best way to legally bond was to have one adopted by the other. It proved a wise solution when the older one were dying in the hospital and the only allowed visits were from the spouse and the sons.