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Searching for a bright side to same-sex-marriage bans

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  • Friday, July 14, 2006 09:48 PM

    marriage is a religious artifact

    of course same-sex advocates are going to lose. That's because marriage is a religious artifact institutionalized as part of secular society. Instead, under the concept of separation of church and state, leave marriage as a private religious ceremony, meaningful to only those in that faith. apply all the current legal benefits instead to civil union. that way, the same-sex community can get their legal benefits and, if their faith allows, they can be married.

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