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Originally Posted by calgaryrocks
i voted no. marriage is a religious union, a civil union is a secular union. if two men or two women want to join in union, go for it, but i guess i don't see the point of it. if they are committed and plan on spending the rest of their lives together, sure. marriage is very symbolic, between a man and a women. but if two homosexual partners want to spend the rest of thier lives together, thats fine, whats wrong with just being common law or joining in civil union, aside from the church.
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What about same sex couples that are married in a church? I believe that some Anglican and Protestant (United Church of Canada) as well as some others do in fact preform marriage services for same sex couples. By your reasoning they are in fact in a marriage as it was a religious union.
For the record I voted yes. I can't ever figure out why in a world filled with so much negativity (war, crime, poverty . . . ) that something like the love of two people, no matter what sex they are, is not more celebrated?
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The largest Protestant denomination in the country, the United Church of Canada, offers church weddings to same-sex couples and supports same-sex marriages, testifying to this effect during the cross-country Justice Committee hearings. Unitarian Universalist congregations also solemnize same-sex marriages, as do the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and the Metropolitan Community Church. Some progressive Jewish congregations and some within the Anglican Church have also supported same-sex marriage.
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