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To: Dead Corpse
Get government out of the marriage business and you can tell the sodomites and liberals to go piss up a rope.

How do you do that? Our laws governing pensions, survivor benefits, etc. depend on a definition of marriage and recording it. 20% of the population are atheists.

We have religions like Islam that permit up to four wives. How should they be treated?

The government has been involved with marriage since the inception of the Republic. We have laws against incest, polygamy, marrying children, etc. Should those laws be eliminated and leave it up to individuals to decide?

74 posted on 12/11/2012 10:38:01 AM PST by kabar
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To: kabar
Those are all State laws. You do know how this whole Federal Republic thing works right?

1st Amendment is Federal. It has a clause limiting it's scope to the FedGov under "Congress shall make no law"...

DOMA opened up a Federal can of worms and these are the fish you are catching.

88 posted on 12/11/2012 10:47:37 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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