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Originally Posted by DementedReality
this is such a dumb debate ... if a church doesnt want to regonize a marriage other than in traditional sense, so be it. otherwise, why do they get to dictate what the rest of us do.
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But why should the state own the word marriage. A word with a different definition for many different people. Get rid of the state definition of the word and let the English language take its course.
One might ask as secular marriages became popular why the government used the religious term. It would also be interesting to see if when the government started to recognize secular marriages was there the same protest from the religious communities.