re: #296 wheat-dogghazi-bola

You go, Ben!

Thing is, “traditional marriage legislation” is already on the books. No one thought hundreds of years ago to explicitly specify “one man, one woman” when drafting the laws. The lack of specificity is one reason why the courts are ruling in favor of same-sex marriage.

A lot of these people fail or simply refuse to understand the distinction between the religious sacrament of matrimony and the civil status of marriage.

Religious groups can refuse to recognize gays a being married in the eyes of God, but in the eyes of the law there is no distinction.

There was a time when the Catholic Church refused to recognize divorce, refused to remarry divorcees and considered them adulterers if they did remarry. But that did not affect their legal status.