Marriage

8 Conservative Glossary Items #8

I like the definition of marriage used at Wikipedia.

Marriage is a social, spiritual, and/or legal union of individuals ... Marriage is an institution in which interpersonal relationships (usually intimate and sexual) are acknowledged by the state, by religious authority, or by both.

I will not deny that traditionally marriage has been between man and a women. Tradition for tradition's sake doesn't matter to me.

I will not deny that the government has no right tell a religion what marriages it has to recognize. Government has no more place in religion than religion does in government. For the record, churches have been marrying gay couples for years and years and years. Also, for the record, no one has proposed a plan that would force churches to marry anyone.

In our world, many benefits have been bestowed to married couples. These benefits relate to taxation, health care, inheritances, etc. Can anyone give me one rational reason why, in a free society, we don't bestow these same benefits on same-sex couples?

Religious bigotry is not a rational reason.

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