On Sat, November 8, 2014 2:10 pm, Trent W. Buck wrote:
AFAICT, as I hinted earlier, Michael et al only care about the word "marriage". As long as we use a different word, he doesn't care.
The issue being of course is that no religious sect has exclusive ownership of that word or what it means. It is something is enshrined in civil law which can and will be changed according to legislative process. By the next generation people are going to be looking at debates like these a little like we would look at debates over "interracial" marriages. Most of North America (most US states, Canada), South America, and Northern and Western Europe now have marriage equality. It really is quite inevitable in this country as well, because the overwhelming majority are now supporters because they accept the simple principle of equal rights for all. -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt