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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
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Before you hurt yourself slapping your own back, read it again and more carefully. First, it says the church only objects to conveyance of all rights of marriage, although it identifies adoption as a key rigth that they would keep with marriage alone. IOW, if you take a marriage and call it a union, then they object. But if you make a union that is somethign less than marriage (i.e. no adoption rights) then it may be fine. The quotation I offered, which is more recent, identifies certain rights to which they do not object being given to civil unions. These differences, btw, are why I said "Not exactly" in my post.
Can you wrap your head around any of that?