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• My Thoughts (Score:2)

  by pudge (1)

  If you care. [slashdot.org] It's not my complete thoughts, but it is a fairly succinct and accurate representation.
  
  Not that your post is necessarily about gay marriage per se, and more about the arguments, but still.
  • Civil unions (Score:2)

    by schwern (1528)

    [Just to be clear, I'm not railing at you at all pudge.]
    
    I've head this one before. Government does legal "unions" between two people, leave "marriage" to the churches who are free to do whatever they want. Church and state remain separated as God and the Founding Fathers intended.
    
    I like this idea. Anyone can get hitched to anyone else and if they want a marriage they can go to whatever church will take them to put a preacher's stamp on it.
    
    However, I have seen this used as a hypocritical excuse for peo
    • Re:Civil unions (Score:2)

      by pudge (1)

      However, I have seen this used as a hypocritical excuse for people to vote against gay marriage resolutions. "I'm voting against because I don't believe government should say what marriage is". Ok, but meanwhile they are. And isn't it convienient that the existing definition is in your favor? As long as marriage is a legal thing, might as well patch it up as best we can.
      
      I can understand disliking it, and while it may be hypocritical for some people, it is not necessarily hypocritical.
      
      I would not vote aga
      • Re:Civil unions (Score:2)

        by TeeJay (2309) on 2005.04.06 3:00 (#39440) Homepage Journal

        If your religion see's gay marriage as a sin then its simple, your religon won't hold gay marriages.

        Shouldn't stop people who disagree having a gay marriage. If marriage is good, then allowing gay marriage is good.

        You can't have it both ways - either its religious and a matter for any given church based on its beliefs, or its secular and a matter for the government based on equality and basic human rights.

        Life isn't that complicated, either you are appeasing bigots or you are a bigot, pick one and admit it. Don't pretend its a complex moral issue, when it's simple. You could argue american society isn't ready for guns, stock markets or the internet in much the same way.

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        • Re:Civil unions (Score:2)

          by pudge (1)

          You clearly aren't understanding my position. Please go back and read the URL I originally posted, again.