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No, I meant "define." If the government is going to recognize a relationship, they must define what it is that they are recognizing. We shouldn't recoil from this natural reality, we all HAVE to do this in everyday life - differentiate between things in order to avoid insanity. Doing this is "defining."

And what is it the government is obliged to define? Nothing more that what SOCIETY has ALREADY defined as marriage. Government doesn't change anything. In fact, government is PROTECTING what society defines as a central, essential, foundational cultural standard.

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“Government doesn’t change anything. In fact, government is PROTECTING what society defines as a central, essential, foundational cultural standard.”

Except when it doesn’t. Divorce and remarriage? Those states that already have “gay marriage?” I know what my faith says about those things, and I know what the state says. My faith recognizes that it doesn’t have the authority to change marriage. The state doesn’t, and never will. The two aren’t ever going to agree, but the state has the power to punish if one disagrees with its definitions.

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