re: #320 SanFranciscoZionist

I have no issue with the state getting out of the marriage business, and the term marriage being reserved to the religious contract.

I have more issue with the idea that straight people should get ‘married’ by the state, and gay people should get ‘civilly contracted’.

No.
Whatever the state “contract” is called, should be the same for all.

There are churches that will marry gay couples. Wonderful, I’m all for it.

But I would prefer to see “marriage” refer to the religious ceremony, with the state out of the marriage business altogether.

That makes me, in addition to an eeeeebil conservative from the last thread, a bigoted compromiser compromising in the name of hatred and bigotry, according to the wonderfully tolerant folks here.

This is not a good day for me to be posting comments, I think.

I read somewhere that liberals don’t just disagree with conservatives, they think conservatives are evil mean people.

NO! I said to myself. I communicate daily with a lot of folks who are liberal, and they aren’t like that at all.

It’s beginning to appear to me as if I was sadly sadly mistaken.