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- From: bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner)
- Subject: Re: Your own words, of course != bigot
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.004804.21349@novell.com>
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- References: <C03KAA.2zG@NeoSoft.com> <1992Dec31.135710.867@uswmrg.mrg.uswest.com.mrg.uswest.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:48:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.135710.867@uswmrg.mrg.uswest.com.mrg.uswest.com> greg_bradt@msmgate.mrg.uswest.com (Greg Bradt) writes:
- >I have heard an suggestion that might, in principle, satisfy both camps.
- >Since marriage (at least the definition of marriage that excludes gays) is a
- >religious institution, perhaps the solution is to say that one may not grant
- >benefits, rights, or privledges based on marital (i.e. religious) status.
- >This would open us up to the creation of a form of "contractual" (i.e.
- >legal) spousal relationship that would make one eligible for such things as
- >employment benefits. This way, one may be "married" in a religious sense, a
- >legal sense, or both, at the individual's option. After all, the whole
- >issue of samesex marriages arose because we made the mistake of using a
- >religious ceremony in a nonreligious context.
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- Nope, it wouldn't satisfy the camp opposed to leaving the gay community
- alone - we ALREADY have the ability to distinguish between a
- "religious" and a "legal" marriage. For instance, you can get married
- by a JP which is legally binding and never get married in a religious
- ceremony. On the flip side, I imagine you can have a religious
- ceremony but never be legally married (at the weddings I've been too,
- the couple signs something in front of the minister and a witness
- before the ceremony is over, presumably this is to create a legal
- marriage at the same time as the religious one). However, even if a
- couple does get religiously married and not legally, then the common
- law of some states might kick in and they would be considered legally
- married.
-
- In any case, I would think that those opposed to granting "special"
- rights to gays would still insist that legal marriage for gays is a
- "special" right.
-
- Brendan
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