Originally posted by RJHinds
If gaining tax breaks is all this is about, then there are other ways to get tax breaks with desecrating the sanctity of marriage between a man and woman.
The instructor
it is a bloody civil marriage. invented by governments to make it easy to give incentives to couples to get busy and provide population growth. it has nothing to do with your religious marriage, whatever flavor of christian you are, nor does it have anything in common with jw's or jewish or muslim or satanist and scientologist marriage. get it through your skull: you get married twice, for different reasons. religious married doesn't make you civil married, and in fact, some ministers even refuse to marry a couple that hasn't went through the system yet.
gays don't want your religious marriage. gays don't want to belong to a religion that says they will burn in hell for who they are. they want the same bloody benefits that you get, the benefits that the state asociate with marriage. like inheritance laws, being able to visit someone in hospital, getting citizenship through marriage, and so on.
you refuse those rights even though it doesn't bloody concern you. you deny them the right to be happy. countless of people enter loveless marriage just to get the benefits. yet you don't scream about them breaking the sanctity of marriage. countless people get divorced, yet you don't scream about them breaking the sanctity of marriage. countless husbands beat their wives, countless wives beat their husbands, countless spouses cheat on their significant others, countless marry for money, yet you don't scream about the sanctity of marriage. but when two penises want to get married, and promise to not do all the above things, that upsets you.