re: #100 researchok

Personally, I’d like to see congregations offer matrimony contracts for gay couple (there are many, many spiritually inclined straight and gays). That said, I also believe each congregation be allowed to plot it’s own course without fear of stigmatization.

As far as I am concerned, 99% of the problem is one of definitions.

Marriage is a legal term defining a contract between consenting adults that codifies the relationship to the state,

Matrimony is a religious covenant contract outside and ion addition to the legal/marital contract.

If people understood that, there would be far less opposition to gay marriage, O believe.

Of course! And that’s why the GOP will NEVER EVER make that distinction, at least not anytime where gay marriage is a political issue. Because it’s to their advantage to scare their base with the meme of the gays forcing churches to wed them