Election Thread

[Merlinios]

And then there's the Atheists to worry about. If you make marriage a religious-exclusive right, you are going a step further than gay marriage issues are now--that is, gays are being excluded on the basis that they were never included in the first place, but if you take away atheist (or other non-accepted religion) marriage, you're actively taking something away. There will be an outcry. Shots will be fired. Heads will be torn off. It won't be pretty, and I suspect, at the end, the Atheists (myself included, so take this with a grain of salt) will have their way without a constitutional redefinition of marriage, which will open the doors (for better or worse) for just about everything else.

Marriage has been, since the inception of the state, as far as I know, a tool of the state, mainly for definition of household. Maybe it is a religious ceremony as well--that's not my area of expertise, but do we really want marriage law getting more complicated than it is? Do we want to discriminate against non-religious folks (as they will see it, anyway) just to keep the so-called sanctity of marriage (and let's face it, if this sanctity is/was threatened by governmental marriages, it's been non-sacred for hundreds of years by now)?

--me