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Originally Posted by RedKingGold

To clarify my opinion, religious instutitions should not have definitions of "marriage" forced upon them. Religious institutions should have the right to deny recognizing or granting a marriage to individuals who do not follow their principles.

But you don't need to create a different term for this to happen. In every state where gay marriage is legal, religious institutions have not had to recognize any marriage they disagree with. As I pointed out in my earlier post, the Catholic church already has a different definition of marriage than the government, and it hasn't forced them to do anything different.