Quote:You are pretty much right in what I am saying.  I guess "privatizing" the word marriage is the right way to put it.  I'm looking at the term from a legal standpoint and saying that in a social standpoint, any civil union can be referred to with whatever term a couple wants to use.  Take the term "marriage" off of legal documents and change it to "civil union" is a compromise.  It then becomes a "social issue" rather than a "legal issue".

 

Think of it this way.  I personally refuse to call Bruce Jenner by his chosen new name or refer to him as a she.  That's a social thing not a legal thing.

I think you are looking at it the way a reasonable person would. That, however is the problem. The people that are anti gay marriage are not looking at it from a legal standpoint htey are looking at from a religious one pure and simple. To try and make this about the definition of the word is just not accurate because that is not what it is about. To them it's about not wanting to men or women to be together in marriage. 

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