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Originally Posted by Chief Rum
I am just pointing out that there is a large portion of the population that has a religious belief that the term marriage is sacred,
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This argument ignores the quite obvious fact that there is a large portion of the population that isn't religious who hold the term marriage sacred as well. Religious folk aren't the only ones who believe certain terms of statuses are sacred. Sometimes are just so powerfully embedded within a culture that they attain a level of sacredness.
Furthermore, there are quite a growing number of the population that has a religious belief, holds the term marriage sacred, and believes that it is Godly to extend that right (or sacrament) to homosexuals.
And finally, in the 1950s there was a large portion of the population that had a religious belief that marriage is sacred and people of different races marrying was not part of that sacredness. We going to make laws to assuage them? I'm glad we finally decided that wasn't an option.