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Someone needs to explain that part to me too, cause that's indecipherable
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What I was basically inferring was that there have been comments that marriage existed pervious to religion so therefore religion doesn't "own" it. Which is pretty ludicrious. Religion has existed ever since man saw things he could not understand and attributed them to a god. When man got organized religion did too, religions have evolved over the years just as society has. It has been that way ever since time immortal. Then funny part is in the second half of the arguement where since religion doesn't "own" marriage because they are ingnorant fools who don't believe in science they should just let it go an become "enlightened" like the rest of society. I am sure I can go back to manuscripts from the middle ages and find similar text on how we know enough about science now to abandon religion.
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As for blacks and the 1960s, I think he was referring to the 1964 "Voting Rights Act". Yes, blacks were granted suffrage after the civil war, but many, many states made it near impossible for many blacks to qualify for voting. (Obviously beaten to the punch on that one)
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Saying that they didn't have the right to vote until 50 years ago and saying there were stringent policies that prevented them from voting until 1964 in 10 of the 50 states is quite another. In the early days of the colonies you had to be a land owner or be part of a church to vote so does that mean all the poor white folks didn't get to vote until 150 years ago?
With equal rights under the law what is the problem? You add ritual it takes religious connotations. If there were religions that accepted gay marriages we wouldn't have this problem in the first place. You present a legal problem you get a legal answer.