2011-01-18, 02:23 PM
And there's where I disagree with you, Frozzy.
Getting married is something that is done before a deity. The two being able to be treated as one pair is done legally. You can still get married today before God and never file marriage papers. You will be married before God and not men. Likewise, you can get a civil union and be together legally but not in the eyes of God (or whatever deity you believe). It is possible that these two things can become separate. But it takes a whole hell of a lot of political wrangling for it to happen. This is what conservatives mean when it "destroys the sanctity of marriage" because it really does change the definition of what a marriage means in America (married before both God and man).
So getting married is wholly different from a civil union. A civil union is not marriage in the slightest.
But since we're only arguing over definitions and not actually each other's arguments, I suppose my definitions are rather pointless.
Getting married is something that is done before a deity. The two being able to be treated as one pair is done legally. You can still get married today before God and never file marriage papers. You will be married before God and not men. Likewise, you can get a civil union and be together legally but not in the eyes of God (or whatever deity you believe). It is possible that these two things can become separate. But it takes a whole hell of a lot of political wrangling for it to happen. This is what conservatives mean when it "destroys the sanctity of marriage" because it really does change the definition of what a marriage means in America (married before both God and man).
So getting married is wholly different from a civil union. A civil union is not marriage in the slightest.
But since we're only arguing over definitions and not actually each other's arguments, I suppose my definitions are rather pointless.