Quote:You bet your butt being able to marry someone you love regardless of their gender is progress. It may not mean a thing to you and perhaps you disagree, so progress would never be the word you'd use. I'ts tremendous progress for those of us who never had that right previously.


I plan on exercising that right this April, as a matter of fact, and can't wait! My son, our son, that we adopted 11 years ago is beyond excited!

 

The only "progress" that you are about to enjoy is to enter into a "civil union" and call it a "marriage".  The "progress" is that you will be able to legally call it a marriage.  It doesn't matter to you or other leftists that the term "marriage" has deeper meaning to a far more majority of the population.

 

Here's a couple of questions for you.  Why is it so important to gays to call a legal process a "marriage"?  I thought that religion and legal stuff was supposed to be separated.  Legally it's a union between two people which essentially is a contract.  A heterosexual couple getting "married" has to sign the same document that a gay couple has to sign.  That document is basically a legal contract.  Regardless if it's a gay union or a heterosexual union, that's the legal part of it that involves government.  Should that document be called a "marriage license" or should it be more generic and called a "civil union license" regardless of the genders of the people signing it?

 

The term "marriage" is used by many religions and often includes some kind of ritual that means a union between two members of that religion, often and usually a male and a female have joined together.  Why is it that gays seem to think that they can hijack and use that term as their own?  This leaves the realm of law and enters the realm of religion.

 

For the record and I really do mean this.  I am happy for you and I wish you the best of luck.  If you happen to have a couple of invitations to the event, my wife and I surely would attend.  If not, I do understand.  We may not agree politically, but you and I are both long time posters on this board and I do respect you.

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