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Originally posted by henrytots
marriage is a religious thing and the bible clearly says only male and female. i dont have anything against the gay people they can live together but marriage is just too much. *leaves this thread before yall people attack"
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Marriage is not a religious thing. This law does not force Churches to marry people, it is purely a matter of the STATE. There is a thing called "separation of Church and State". The gay marriage we're taking about here has nothing to do with religion, it's only a legal matter. People of every religion marry, atheists as well. They don't necessarily marry with a Church, but they do under the state. And people have been forming unions and living together LONG before organized religion ever appeared. The state cannot discriminate based on sexual orientation...the Constitution states that all humans are born equal. Even if the Constitution didn't sate it it's still a basic matter of human rights and dignity. Exactly the same arguments (it's bad for the children, God meant it that way, the Bible says it) were used against interracial marriage...but the Bible cannot dictate laws.
The Bible also states that people who cut their hair and wear clothes made out of two different types of fabrics deserve to be stoned to death. In fact those "mandates" are a few paragraphs above the often-cited Leviticus paragraph which alludes to homosexuality. If you want to live your life by a 2000 year old document (which, by the way, has been translated, edited and interpreted so many times it's possible it bears no resemblance to the original writing) that has nothing to do with today's society, then fine, but don't expect everyone else to.