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briandmyers  ·  3094 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Religious Freedom - HELP ME

    Anyone should be able to marry any other consenting adult.

This is a whole other can of worms, but I think you just endorsed plural marriage, dude ;-)





steve  ·  3094 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I did indeed. If people want to do that - go for it.

briandmyers  ·  3094 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree with you - but there are legal entanglements and advantages/obligations conferred by marriage (mostly tax-related) that need to be clearly sorted out.

kleinbl00  ·  3094 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The best argument I've ever heard is that marriage should be abolished as a civil institution and all tax and citizenship benefits should be transferred to civil unions, which are wholly separate from marriages.

"Marriage" should be whatever you and/or your church want it to be; "civil union" should be between two consenting adults.

rob05c  ·  3093 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's a wholly semantic issue. Marriage is part of law, because marriage is a cultural thing, and a human thing; religion simply codified it. Pair-bonding is older than humanity. The problem being, of course, many people believe not only that religion invented 'marriage,' but their religion in particular.

I agree with you. They're wrong, as a matter of fact. But if it makes them less antagonistic, let them have it. I value people more than words.

steve  ·  3094 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I support this idea 100%.