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Skriven 2006-07-04 13:07:00 av Robert E Starr JR (3766.babylon5)
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On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 23:02:21 GMT, Amy Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com>
wrote:

>>>On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 18:11:22 -0400, Charlie Edmondson wrote
>(in article <44a9960b$1@news.cadence.com>):
>
>> Amy Guskin wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> That's a narrow view: what about gay couples who are atheists but still 
>>> want 
>>> to have the benefit of being able to say that they are married?  From where

>>> I 
>>> sit, the issue seems to be a desire for equality, pure and simple.  A civil

>>> union is not a marriage.  "Marriage" has a social connotation that "civil 
>>> union" does not.
>>> 
>>> Why anyone would want to place restrictions on the amount of consensual 
>>> love 
>>> being expressed in this world, I can't understand.
>>> 
>>> Amy
>>> 
>> Ok, going to step in, and then out.  I am not discussing this, but I 
>> will present my feelings and opinion.
>> 
>> I am married.  I am a religous person to whom the term 'married' means a 
>> God blessed union between a man and a woman.  It is how it has been 
>> defined for centuries (millenia...?) and that is how it is. <<
>
>So, you are saying that my fourteen years of marriage to my husband - the 
>ceremony for which was performed by a justice of the peace - is less valid 
>than yours because "God" (your version) didn't bless it?  What if I'd had a 
>pagan ceremony (and in fact, on our tenth anniversary we renewed our vows in 
>front of friends with a Wiccan priestess presiding), and it was a different 
>god than yours blessing it?  Does that count less, too?

(Wiccan is a good example - my DW and I had our church wedding for the
folks, but the ceremony that *really* made us feel married was our
handfasting that evening in a Gardnerian circle)  But we don't have to
go to wiccan - Charlie's battement would exclude anyone not Christian,
Jewish or Islam.
>
>

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