cmakaioz
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This matter is simply rightly one of appeal to definition .. and there's no theocratic/non-theocratic element to the matter.
Sorry, but that's even more absurd than your other appeals to popular prejudice/tradition.
I dealt with this topic professionally for about four years, and in all that time (with hundreds of students writing persuasive essays each quarter), I didn't encounter a single rational, non-contradictory argument against SSM. The remaining arguments -- the irrational ones -- were ALL easily traceable to religious dogma.
In fairness, one very real possibility for explaining this is that there ARE NO rational and logically consistent arguments against legal marriage equality.
As for theocracy, there's no chance in hell Prop 8 would have come within miles of passage were it not for OPEN, OVERT appeal to religious doctrine and vigorous fundraising and GOTV campaigns wages by religious adherents (both within and -- most infamously -- outside of California). Basing electoral decisions upon religious dogma IS theocracy, but since there is an electoral culture in the United States in which sound justification for one's vote is a minimal -- if not altogether absent -- concern. Many (if not most) religious adherents here don't reject the notion of applying self-discipline to avoid polluting one's vote with religious dogma...so much as the relevant danger of theocracy not even occurring to them as a hazard in the first place.