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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:Quote:
Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Marriage IS a religious institution. However, to be properly unioned, you still have to get a license from the state.
Is marraige really a religious institution, or has religion taken marraige and institutionalized it? If a man and a women go to City Hall to get married, is that marraige any less legitimate than a church wedding?
Bingo. There were marriages before there was religion, and there were gay marriages in biblical times. Christ himself is even said to have presided over - and blessed - one such marriage!
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Quote:Ignoramus!
Marriage is a RELIGIOUS insitution(sic)
Let's see if you are capable of learning...
A religious leader proclaims marriage by saying
By the power vested in me BY THE STATE...
Get it?
Marriage = government institution
OH, and BTW? I was MARRIED in a courtroom by a judge and have been MARRIED for 35 years....
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Originally posted by SignyM:
A religious leader proclaims marriage by saying
By the power vested in me BY THE STATE...
Get it?
Marriage = government institution
I believe that Marriage as a government institution is most likely a historically recent usurpation of power from the Church.
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OH, and BTW? I was MARRIED in a courtroom by a judge and have been MARRIED for 35 years....
Congrats on making it 35years, we just had our 33rd yesterday.
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Sig
A govt. coopting a religious institution does not make it not a religious institution.
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I did enjoy it IMMENSELY, thanks! The most laughs I've had for a long time! This conflict was about taxation without representation, right? Is it the taxation bit or the without representation bit that still burns so badly after all these many, many, many years?
Who's the fat chap with the wine glass? He's evil! I hate him! Taxing people and not allowing them any representation - apart from genocide, forcible resettlement, mass rape and murder, police brutality and torture and totalitarianism, I can't think of anything worse.
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Originally posted by Kirkules:Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
A religious leader proclaims marriage by saying
By the power vested in me BY THE STATE...
Get it?
Marriage = government institution
I believe that Marriage as a government institution is most likely a historically recent usurpation of power from the Church.
Nope, it was a state institution before Churches as we know them even existed.
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DREAMTROVE
Quote:I believe that's in line with what I said. Unless you meant to say "A govt. coopting a religious institution does not make it not a government institution" in which case I'd disagree with you. For example, many of our laws are based in religion.... the law about not killing, for example. Nonetheless, those laws are indeed government institutions.
Sig A govt. coopting a religious institution does not make it not a religious institution.
KIRK
Quote:Well, congrats to you too! There aren't many people who've made it this far!
Congrats on making it 35years, we just had our 33rd yesterday.
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Originally posted by Kirkules:
I believe that Marriage as a government institution is most likely a historically recent usurpation of power from the Church.
But as with most things religious, what you might BELIEVE has little to do with what actually is TRUE.
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Sig:
Congrats on making it that far in your civil union.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_union
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Originally posted by citizen:Quote:
Originally posted by Kirkules:Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
A religious leader proclaims marriage by saying
By the power vested in me BY THE STATE...
Get it?
Marriage = government institution
I believe that Marriage as a government institution is most likely a historically recent usurpation of power from the Church.
Nope, it was a state institution before Churches as we know them even existed.
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Let the Americans debate this. You being British are irrelevant in discussing American life.....Thank you for your restraint....
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