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Originally Posted by Aquila
Here's the crusp of your problem... the homosexuals can only redefine marriage... IF you believe marriage is a possession of the STATE. Thus, your logic demands that if homosexuals sway the STATE to redefine it... they've won and have redefined it.
Don't you realize that the only reason why this is a problem is because... THE STATE HIJACKED MARRIAGE??? This wouldn't be a question if marriage was still a private institution based on contract between private individuals and families. Gays would sign a contract, call it marriage, and society at large would laugh. But since it's now the domain of the STATE... the STATE will legally force it's recognition.
Save marriage... PRIVATIZE IT again.
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I understand full well how the state has taken over marriage contracts. That really does not matter much considering that it (the hijacking of marriage, as you put it) is history and we are living in the present dealing with an issue in the present. Whether this should have ever occurred or not is not the question, the fact is what is relevant is that it (the hijacking of marriage) has happened and that is the law of the land currently.
Whether state authority over marriage is the right thing or not is another subject and not relevant to the discussion at hand as it is based upon what the laws are currently.