I would be Okay if ALL marriages in our society were to be called "civil unions" and marriage was limited to the religious who so love the word. But, if you aren't calling it all the same thing, it ain't equal.
Friend speaks my mind.
Me too
If one looks at all the loaded rhetoric around marriage... sacrament, scared, sanctity etc... the definitions of these words are all rooted in religious concepts. Once government involvement moves beyond a legal civil union agreement, the government becomes inextricably involved in enforcing religious beliefs.
If marriage is a sacred sacrament whose sanctity must be protected... that should happen within a religious, not a civil context. IMO the government is constitutionally prohibited from enforcing anyone's concept of the sanctity of marriage.
