To: gondramB
Nobody (I hope) is talking about restrciting religious marriage, only governmnet recognized marriage.
From what I understand this, like all other amendments along this vein, just concerns itself with what marriages the government will recognize. You can still marry a tree if that is your thing...but the government will not pay social security benefits to the tree or its descendents...yet.
13 posted on
06/03/2006 10:49:56 AM PDT by
P-40
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To: P-40
>>From what I understand this, like all other amendments along this vein, just concerns itself with what marriages the government will recognize. You can still marry a tree if that is your thing...but the government will not pay social security benefits to the tree or its descendents...yet.<<
That has been my understanding too - there have been same sex religious ceremonies forever - I'm not sure why preachers would think their religious freedom would be inhibited.
14 posted on
06/03/2006 10:53:24 AM PDT by
gondramB
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