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...HAPPY MARRIAGE?...
...said they do not believe religious values should play an important role in government and (in striking contrast to their parents) close to the same number support gay marriage. Every generation discards another prejudice and ours is no different. Despite the prejudiced and divisive “defense of marriage?? arguments, we cling to the idea of an America free of prejudice. And right-wing Republicans should remember: the college students of today are the swing voters of tomorrow...
...there are no so such consequences, just as there weren’t when the laws preventing the marriage of couples of mixed race were overturned, despite similar fervent outcry on the contrary. Nor is it that I’m having trouble reconciling my personal religious definition of marriage??in the Anglican tradition, the union of a man and a woman before God—with the idea of homosexuals entering civil marriage...
...seems that the term “civil marriage?? is something of an oxymoron to begin with. That word “marriage??—so rife and saturated with religious connotation and emotion, “civil” or not—is on the large part the thing that is preventing people from extending the civil rights contained therein to their fellow citizens, despite the fact that such an ecclesiastical term has no place in a government that values a separation of church and state. For the traditional definitions of religion...
...discussion of religious precedent or personal moral persuasion that we are having today in the Commonwealth but strictly a semantic discussion of whether the rights guaranteed to the straight can be legally denied to the gay, and constitutionally they cannot. If the word “marriage?? and its religious connotation are the primary obstacles to the extension of these rights, then let us remove this troublesome word from our laws and endow all of our citizens with the same right to form a civil union with an other in the eyes of the Commonwealth, leaving the terms...