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3. What is wrong with being allowed to marry your best friend?

Reply to countryjake (Original post)

Wed Dec 5, 2012, 06:07 PM

Dec 2012

Marriage is a legal contract. All kind of other contracts are legal. Why not allow a marriage contract with your best friend, no matter the genders, be legal also?

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To have this be a legal marriage means everything to both of us [View all] countryjake Dec 2012 OP

Wonderful!!! peacebird Dec 2012 #1

how wonderful--but how sad that this is still such an issue so many places. we should celebrate niyad Dec 2012 #2

So true, it is sad, but wa state is full of celebration today... countryjake Dec 2012 #15

What is wrong with being allowed to marry your best friend? RC Dec 2012 #3

I can share my perspective AlecBGreen Dec 2012 #5

The marriage ceremonies your pastor performs are legal only because the state Lars39 Dec 2012 #6

thanks for your reply AlecBGreen Dec 2012 #7

I used to think that having civil unions and marriages would be the answer until Lars39 Dec 2012 #8

For the same reason he would deny Heaven to those that never had a chance to hear of his son. RC Dec 2012 #9

A few years behind you, but same result. Lars39 Dec 2012 #10

I disagree AlecBGreen Dec 2012 #12

Given the near theocratic status of many red states, Lars39 Dec 2012 #13

Here are a couple of links... countryjake Dec 2012 #14

thanks for the links AlecBGreen Dec 2012 #16

Assuring equal rights for all in this country isn't any gods concern... countryjake Dec 2012 #17

How do you feel about atheists marrying? Science Geek Dec 2012 #20

it depends on how you define marriage AlecBGreen Dec 2012 #21

Rec. progressoid Dec 2012 #4

K&R nt Zorra Dec 2012 #11

K&R suffragette Dec 2012 #18

I love weddings. Hekate Dec 2012 #19