re: #178 researchok

The idea of matrimony is a religious one.

As time progressed, the state gave marriage a specific legal status.

Marriage is conflated with matrimony because for along time, matrimony- and then marriage (meaning a matrimony recognized by the state) was pretty much the sole purview of the religious institutions.

My point is there needs to be a real clarification of the distinctions. With that, an enormous amount of time and energy will wasted on a whole lot of stupid.

They should be, but there won’t, I think the ship has sailed on trying to make that distinction translate to voters, there’s far too much pushback, far too many people who have a vested interest in making sure those distinctions are clouded beyond recognition to support anti-gay memes