Marriage is a religious ceromony so your reasoning does not work.
Amendment 1
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government for a redress of grievances.
Your the one that bitches about the "Moral majority" , you can't have it both ways Buttwheat.
Actually Tom its not. Not if we're talking civil marriage. Going to the courthouse and getting hitched by a JP is purely civil. Religious marriage by a priest, rabbi, whatever is a different animal. They can set their own rules (and rightly so). Civil marriage, though is just a contract ratified by the state. The 1st Amendment doesn't enter into it. I support Civil Marriage for gays, I oppose it in my church. It doesn't make me a hypocrite, its recognizing that they are two different things, with different criteria.
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