[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by nemanja2306

I'm Orthodox, don't why, but I feel I need to share that information. To answer your question I don't know. Why do bad things happen to good people? I don't know how it is for other people, but marriage to me is a religious institution. I truly believe that. And when I do get married, I'll do whatever it takes to keep my vows ( ie. not cheat, beat my wife...etc.). To me, it's more than paperwork.

For the parade thing, I think they do more harm than they do good, because they can actually harm their gay rights movement. People can get a wrong picture about gay people which I know is what they're not going for.

That's cool, and as I said earlier, no one is arguing that your church should have to marry a gay couple if they don't want to.

However why should that make you opposed to gay couples being allowed to have civil marriages?

If you're so opposed to gay marriages because you think marriage is a strictly religious instituion, then are you opposed to straight couples getting married in a strictly civil ceremony?