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hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
11. Let me take yez to school, Ratzi.
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 05:41 PM
Nov 2012

In the United States, and in most developed countries around the world, one can choose to be married in a civil ceremony - before a judge - or in a religious ceremony in which the participants presume that an all-powerful Invisible Sky Wizard or perhaps the Flying Spaghetti Monster or the Invisible Pink Unicorn or some benevolent cosmic entity is consecrating the ceremony.

People married before a judge are just as "married" as people who get married in a church or somewhere near a beer volcano. My parents were married by a judge. I worked for a judge who must have married two dozen couples during my time with him. If your particular Invisible Sky Wizard, among the many who have been alleged to exist as the ONLY ISW, doesn't want to observe Teh Awful Geyhz getting hitched, so be it. Believe in whatever benighted bullshit you want to believe in. Gay couples can go find a more enlightened religious organization that puts the whole brotherhood of humanity (including the female half) thing into actual, ya know, practice, or they can hie themselves down to the courthouse and have Judge Jones perform the ceremony.

They will be just as married.

Butt out, Ratzi. Don't you have some child-rapists to transfer somewhere?

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