Even the gays can't stand the wokeness, interesting reddit thread
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They already had it in function, I guess. I can see both sides of the gay marriage argument though.
I just believe that at this point from a legal perspective they should have the same right to marriage that anyone else has, even though marriage used to be a spiritual bonding provided through religion.
It can still be both of these things for different people, and neither can negate the other. Perhaps the eye should be cast at the government for turning marriage into something with legal benefits / negatives, which was not what marriage was meant to be.
Civil unions have been around for a long time. The gay marriage issue was mostly about trying to force people into recognizing a spiritual bond via legislature. The very nature of marriage is a religious one and is quite literally forbidden in most of the religious doctrine. The adoption of marriage by the legal system does not remove the religious aspects of marriage. The homosexual's could have easily pressed for federal recognition of civil union without any debate or uproar. The very insistence of "marriage" was specifically chosen as inflammatory. I would have willingly given up the legal term married and been quite satisfied in all being categorized as civil unions. Marriages could be relegated to religious identification only and given the same rights, privileges and responsibilities as civil unions with the legal framework. This would have been a simple and equitable solution to disentangle religious doctrine from the legal system.
agreed
Marriage is now a contract between the man and the woman with the government being an interested party on her side.