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Originally posted by oilers_fan+May 17 2005, 03:39 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (oilers_fan @ May 17 2005, 03:39 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Snakeeye@May 17 2005, 04:35 PM
At the risk of completely derailing this topic, the government should just strike the word "marriage" altogether and call everything a union. Let people decide on their own what a "marriage" is, and pull the rug right out from under the lobby's pushing the definition of a word as a major politial issue in a nation that has far, far, far more important political crises to deal with.
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I don't agree with catering to the left like that. Let them call their "entaglements" 'civil unions' and any opposite sex couple who wants to get married and keep the term 'marriage' can do so. So often solutions, to what seem like major problems, are actually quite simple. All this pandering to people is ridiculous, and I've about had enough. [/b][/quote]
Believe me, I will never consider a gay union to be a marriage. Hell, I dont even consider common-law unions to be marriages either, even though the legal definition says otherwise.
Point is, however, that we are fighting over a word. To me, this isnt a case of catering to the left, but of pulling the rug out from political opportunists.