DGomez
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No, up until quite recently, religion CLAIMED ownership of marriage, whether or not that's actually true or not. However, what may have been true, or perceived to be true in the past, has no bearing on what is true today. In the modern world, religion simply provides a ceremony to celebrate marriage, it has no other function in the process.
You can walk down all the aisles in all of the churches you want, you're not married until you get that piece of paper from the state.
Religion CLAIMED ownership of marriage? Right. Whatever you say. I'm just going to let that statement sort of hang in air.
Marriage was an institution established for business purposes. It was a way to grant sexual rights to ensure legitimate heirs, a way to increase wealth by combining property, and a simple way to establish who inherits what. In Western cultures a wedding ceremony was necessary because the Catholic Church was the only uniform power recognized by every nation.
The dominant argument for homosexual marriage these days is "why can't a couple who loves each other get married like everyone else?" The cold and simple answer is that Western marriage has NEVER been about love.
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