[htr693]

I believe in this instance, we need to address the issue that 'marriage' nowadays has two different societal meanings. We are arguing for two different things.

There is marriage in the religious sense, and marriage in the legal/monetary sense.

If you are a religious person, you believe what you believe. Many men and women are married, and have not had a ceremony in a church, but have done so legally, so that they might express their love for one another, and share a life together, despite not being religious.

If we have already separated marriage from the church in this way, than I see no reason for homosexual people to be able to express these same feelings towards one another in this same way. To each their own.