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To: tdadams
.... Laws against gay marriage ....
There are no laws against gay marriage

There are laws that define what a marriage is, and what rights and privileges are granted to a married couple. A marriage is a union between a man and a woman. If you don't want to have that, don't get married.

As I said, an analogous law concerning bah mitzvahs, if you want to construct such an analogy, would be a law that required bah mitzvahs to be performed for anyone, regardless of their religious beliefs, and a that required the privileges and benefits of bah mitzvahs to be conferred on anyone, not just on those who believe in the Jewish faith.

61 posted on 07/19/2003 11:23:46 AM PDT by cc2k
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To: cc2k
There are no laws against gay marriage... There are laws that define what a marriage is

Maybe you have an aversion to logic, or maybe just to the obvious, but if the law defines marriage in a way that precludes gay marriage, there is a law against gay marriage.

I'm simply bewildered that that even needs to be explained.

62 posted on 07/19/2003 11:27:29 AM PDT by tdadams
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To: cc2k
Help me out here. Two women we know got married by their minister. In the US people have the freedom of religious belief. They are married in the eyes of their church. The government does not recognize the marraige. Are they married or not?
76 posted on 07/19/2003 12:20:48 PM PDT by breakem
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