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I believe the religious leaders wanted to coopt the power of marriage by requiring the state to institute it, because at the time the worked in cooperation with the state. So religious leaders are now seeing it come full circle.
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01-23-2009, 06:37 PM | #13 | |
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Someone on the sister site brought up how this could be an argument against the fear gays would bring suits to require religions to perform gay marriage. This perspective just reinforced what a lie that fear is. Gay marriage is the logical extension of separation of church and state, the linchpin of the Enlghtenment and the American republic. A country that tolerates gay marriage making churches perform it is as absurd a notion as a lion grazing.
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