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Originally Posted by Boblobla
Not it is not. I personally feel that the term marriage applys to a man and a woman. It is my opinion and because of that opinion I am opposed to the idea of a gay marriage. It's not like I am going down to Detour, roping myself a fruit and dragging 'em behind my pickup with my clan buddies.
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Religious groups always claim ownership of the term marriage as its their creation and as by their defined rules cannot be anything other than man and woman.
Certainly marriage has been around long before modern religions, and has many different meanings to many different people.
What the problem is in the US for example is that Christians want their definition of marriage to be the rule of law, over the differing views of many others who feel gays should have the same rights of union in marriage as any others in their country.
Separation of Church/State should be an overriding principle in this matter, since its at its base a debate about the rights of humans. It can be argued and turned into a much more complex debate, but ultimately for me its a matter of equal rights.
Taking religion out of the equation its a matter of equality, but obviously that won't happen and religious groups will continue to claim ownership of a word to fight against something they believe strongly against.