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Originally Posted by RedKingGold
Not really. If same-sex couples want to advise others that they are married, I would have no issue with that. I think, however, it would make more sense for the government to avoid the whole "marriage" term altogether because there is a significant part of the population who identifies it as a religious term. Why set yourself up for inevitable lawsuits concerning the separation of church and state?
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I have no problem with that myself .... IF the government then stops giving special treatment to people who are 'married' and require them to also have civil government ceremonies to get their tax breaks etc.
Essentially reducing marriage to a religious only ceremony with no significance outside of that (after all the tax situation etc. which marriage has presently is a lack of separation of church and state etc.).