I thought you were mentioning Ireland, northern is definitely different!

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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

Why not, Senax? What would happen if it were defined as a union of two people, rather than a man and a woman?

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Why not call a apple a orange? Neither the apple nor the orange would care. But, the apple would still be a apple.

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"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." ~Ronald Reagan

I don't care if you call it marriage or not. I don't care id you redefine the meaning of marriage or not.

I support the recognition by the government of the union of two people, homosexual or heterosexual, and hence the application of both responsabilities and rights.

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Nelson Mandela

It is normal for words to be redefined over time. A good example is awful. It used to mean full of awe. Now it means really bad, terrible.

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There are actually 2 issues here. 1st, The union of 2 people should be between those 2 people and God or whatever those people believe in. There should not be a fee, a license, a registration or anything. The government should stay out of that aspect of peoples lives. Unfortunately that is not the case.

2nd, same sex marriage is not the real issue here. It is the nationwide recognition, acknowledgment and acceptance of homosexuality. These people in the gay community do not care about marriage. They want everyone to know they are gay and to acknowledge it. Tolerance is not enough for them. They see marriage as the ultimate recognition, not because they even believe in marriage, but because they see it as a justification of their homosexuality itself.

And to the original topic, Interracial marriage, not a thing in the world wrong with it.

I am very serious...they want to have a union between a man and a man or a woman and a woman go through the necessary means to create your own union...the unity of a man and a woman with benefits that follow were made in our history for only those which it stated, a man and a woman, a belief and union that was created under god. That is what history will point out...I don't think it should be so simply as to say ok you all can get "married" and benefit accordingly because simply you want to and ignore the tradition that set marriage in place historically.

I support your idea...as long as it is nationally recognized as opposed to state by state and the benefits are exactly the same as if it were a man and a woman. Call it whatever you like, I'm hoping gays are not that critical of it. Though, they probably are. I can see both sides of that issue. I think the simple fact that the union of gays will never be recognized by accredited churches and religions is enough to separate the two forms of marriage however. Being wedded surrounded by cement block walls and scuffed up marble floors isn't very romantic if you ask me.

Why do people have to be forced to agree with a union that wasn't created for them? Also when marriage came to it did not say anything about same race conditions...it did however base it's union on the unity of a man and a woman, by the blessing of God. This is a tradition that a lot of people don't feel they need change simply because someone wants it changed, they went recognition...I think the homosexual community, htough I don't have a personal problem with, flaunt their sexuality in everyone else's faces and it just really rubs people the wrong way...do you need to claim a rainbow as a symbol for your sexuality? Do you need to have parades just for your sexuality? Why not have a strictly heterosexual parade or heterosexual symbol flaunted in the heterosexual community? If that happened all hell would break loose and rights activists would be all over it like flies on poop.

Where do you draw the line?