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Fatal_Freedoms

gay marriage is a legal contract between two consenting adults, as such, it is protected under "liberty of contract".

this is one argument you cannot win!

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Drnaline

Once difference, in most peoples definition and that is the majority, marriage is between a man and a women, period.
Man + women = marriage
Man + man does not = marriage
women + women does not = marriage

By definition of marriage the gays only choice is the opposite sex.

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Fatal_Freedoms

mar·riage /ˈmærɪdʒ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[mar-ij] Pronunciation Key
n.
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d. A union between two persons having the customary but usually not the legal force of marriage: a same-sex marriage.





Across cultures, the ceremonial and social phenomena conventionally defined as marriage assume myriad forms and serve varied purposes, yet marriage is usually defined as the formal ideological recognition of a sexual relationship between one man and one woman (monogamy) ; among one man and two or more women (polygamy: polygyny) ; or among one woman and two or more men (polygamy: polyandry). Because sexual intercourse is approved in this relationship, the children of a marriage usually possess a status superior to children born beyond its boundaries.




In Loving v. Virginia (1967), the Court affirmed that marriage was a fundamental right and accordingly invalidated a state ban on interracial marriage. Zablocki v. Redhail (1978) voided a Wisconsin law prohibiting the remarriage of a noncustodial parent who failed to pay court‐ordered child support. All these challenged restrictions violated the right to wed that the Court found implicitly guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. However, most kinds of state regulation of marriage have survived judicial scrutiny.




*If you wish to argue semantics then surely you have nothing left to support your position......as usual.

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-Thomas jefferson

Drnaline

Marriage it a religious event, always was always will be.

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B Hussein Obama
“Even if I want to take [your guns] away,” he said, “I don’t have the votes in Congress.”


“[A] wise and frugal government... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.” —Thomas Jefferson




"I'm here to support John McCain because country matters more than party."

Joe Lieberman

Sabz5150

Mine wasn't.

There are also religions out there that don't care about same-sex marriages. What about marriage under those religions?

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Fatal_Freedoms

unless it's done in a courtroom or on the deck of a ship!

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