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Originally Posted by TheKnight
I think the problem with gay marriage is a problem with the State in general. The State basically took a spiritual thing and added a legal contract to it. Gay people that wish to marry (so far as I have understood) want the legal aspect, whereas religious people see it as their wanting the spiritual aspect. The solution is to split the two. Legal contracts (ie legal benefits and privileges) have no place in the marital realm, and marriage (a spiritual binding of two people in religious opinion) has no place in the legal realm.
In essence, one side sees it as a contract, and wants to be able to have that contract.
The other side sees it as much more then a contract.
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Yeah it is already split. I mean people get married without having a big religious ceremony all of the time, atheists for example. Well actually it's not completely split because even if you want the religious ceremony you still have to get the contract for it to be recognised by the law, and that's pretty important. So you can't split it entirely. No matter what happens churches are never going to be forced to marry any couples they don't want to all gay couples want is the contract and they hope to get lucky enough to find a church to marry if them if that's what they want.