Atheists & Agnostics

AlbertCat

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18. Marriage is not a sacrament. It's a legal status.

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 11:02 PM

Jan 2015

It is both.

There is no reason to not separate the two...since religion is not the government anymore..... that's the "why" to get out of it now. (Y'know, religions are just ancient government)

"Separate the legalization of the marriage from the religious service that celebrates it. "

Uh.... that's exactly what I proposed.

Since the religious folks are the one clutching their pearls about what a "marriage" is.... let them have the term "marriage" and the government/legal part can be called the non-religious term "domestic partnership"... since that's what it is legally.

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