It should have been left a Religious issue. Once they got the State to sanction marriage, they ceded control over the definition.
That was stupid IMO.
My religion States that a marriage is between a man and a woman. No legislation passed will change my mind on that.
I don’t give two tin sh*ts what anyone else does.
You say that, but that isn't what you mean at all.
You don't want the Mosque to define marriage and for atheists to be forbidden marriage.
“It should have been left a Religious issue. Once they got the State to sanction marriage, they ceded control over the definition.”
Read Reynolds. Not so. Reynolds argues very explicitly that the federal government has the right to regulate marriage, it cannot redefine, just like it cannot redefine habeaus corpus or trial by jury, instances of the English Common Law that predate the establishment of the Constitution in America.
It should have been left a Religious issue. Once they got the State to sanction marriage, they ceded control over the definition.
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Agreeed