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To: Pokey78
I don't understand why the state (the state being gov't) feels it even needs to even define what a marriage is. IMO the government has no business regulating acts between 2 people, their church and God.
8 posted on 08/12/2002 11:02:03 PM PDT by rb22982
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To: rb22982
IMO the government has no business regulating acts between 2 people, their church and God.

There is no lack of pastors who will officiate an unlicensed union/marriage. And there is little impediment from the law to 'gay marriage.' Nobody in this coutnry is being sent to jail for performing gay marriages. The law today treats them as a fiction rather than an offense.

Where the law enters is in bestowing and enforcing benefits, rights and obligations. But the religious aspects are not interfered with.

9 posted on 08/12/2002 11:10:22 PM PDT by Looking for Diogenes
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