Quote:This is where you are wrong.  The term "marriage" when asked to presidential candidates is usually combined with the word(s) what do you believe.

 

Gays started "the fight" because they wanted "equality" under the law, you have even expressed that yourself.

 

So I propose a reasonable (I think) change to separate the social use of the term from the legal use of the term.  However, that's not good enough for your community and those that support your community.  What you are saying is that we should use the term "marriage" in legal documents and force it on the majority of the population.

 

 

Quote:Wrong, the word IS the issue.

IF the word is an issue you can blame the right. They are the ones that passed laws in their states saying marriage is between one man and one woman. They denied rights to the LGBT community with impunity. To try to pretend this was done for any reason other than legislating religious morality on the population at large is disingenuous.

 

Being gay used to be wrong and evil. Now it's still wrong and evil to some but you can't say it anymore because society has shifted it's stance on the subject. So now that open persecution can't be done anymore a different tact has been chosen. That being the protection of the sanctity of marriage, which I am sorry is a terrible joke consider how THAT has changed in the eyes of the believers. Your argument is about that word and I believe you are being genuine in your argument. What I do not believe is that all of sudden the people that legislated something as a sin or evil and against the law have changed their tune for anything other than the same despicable reasons they made it illegal (unconstitutionally) in the first place. 

 

In the end changing the word in the legal meaning is silly, IMO because keeping the same as it has been for how long now, does absolutely nothing to change how the religious view their marriages. Beliefs ought not be in the talk when it comes to legislation. Changing the word away from the common vernacular would be doing exactly that. 

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