Reply #61: So if you're not religious, you can't get married?

[Warren DeMontague]

Sorry, that argument is NEVER going to fly. There is a difference between civil marriage and religious marriage already, which is why conflating the two in these arguments isn't helpful. Like, as if gay marriage is legalized, the Catholic Church will be forced to marry gays... er, well, it's legal for divorced people to marry, but not in the Catholic Church- right?

Many people- even irreligious people- like being "married". The argument here is for equal, legal rights. Rather than telling 90% of the population they can't legally wed anymore, I think it's much more reasonable to say that GLBT citizens should have the SAME EQUAL RIGHT to marrry their SO as everyone else.

Period.