Quote Originally Posted by VictorCharlie View Post
This is such a non-issue to me. Marriage is a religious institute that the government has co-opted. The government needs to get out of the marriage business all together. Leave marriage to the religious institutions. There should be no reason why two consenting adults cannot enter into a contractual public union so the government sees them as a single entity regarding taxes and legal matters.

This is exactly my view. From a legal and right's point of view I am in favour of everybody having the same legal rights.

But 'marriage' is a religious ceremony and it should be entirely up to each religion to conduct ceremonies according to their own beliefs.

I don't see how homosexuals can marry in any Christian sense though, it's clearly forbidden in the Bible and even if the ceremony is carried out it's not valid.

I also don't understand why a man marrying another man is somehow acceptable in the eyes of most whereas a brother marrying his sister, or another brother would not be. The same with a man taking two wives, or even a man marrying a goat.

They are all as weird as each other imo.