Marriage poll

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10. Of course there are big common sense issues with it... But ideologically I'm with you.

The issue is the first amendment. The US government doesn't have the right to block religious practices of any kind. Marriage is a religious practice with thousands of years of precedent before the creation of the constitution. Many do it in churches. The combination of law with marriage in the current sense goes back to nations LONG before the separation of church and state and the birth of the first amendment.

As a religious rite, by the first amendment, marriage should be what your church says it is or what you believe it to be. If you believe it involves gays, than the government does not interfere. If you believe it doesn't, the government should not interfere. The job of the government would be to provide the legal frameworks for people to join into that we currently associate with marriage: shared property, the rest, regardless of the personal religious beliefs behind the partnership.