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How on earth did the state get the right to determine who can and cannot get married?
Gays should be fighting to wipe out the state's right to create yet another class of "more equal" people (the "married") rather than trying to get themselves into the "more equal" category.
If our government was not extending special privileges and additional welfare (think "survivor's benefits to those who once were more equal but now are just equal single people), no one would give a rats ass who got married.
Marriage should be something performed in a church and if your particular church won't marry you to your gay boyfriend (or alternately, 4 women, your cousin, etc.) find one that will.
The clergy are going about this the wrong way: they should still perform the marriage but only to those WITHOUT a "license". The term "marriage license" is so offensive in so many ways: how dare the state dictate your most personal decision. Next thing you know they'll begin torturing--oh that's right, we do that too.
Single people: America's largest group of discriminated against.
