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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Marriage is a religious concept, so it should also be up to the churches. Not the government. [/quote]

There are some 300+ laws on the books in Maryland alone that disagree with your statement.  Marriage has become both a religious and a civil concept.  And civil unions are NOT civil marriages.  In most states that have civil unions, the civil unions only have a subset of the rights that are granted to married couples.  Even if you were to grant all existing rights to civil unions as are currently valid, this does not mandate legislators to authorize future laws affecting marriage to automatically likewise affect civil unions.  Civil unions are definitely a separate but unequal legal concept.   And this is flat out governmental discrimination.  Churches may be allowed to discriminate, but the government should not be able to.

The only way to enforce what you are saying is to abolish ALL marriage from the laws and redraft ALL laws to use civil unions (or your term of choice) to affect all legal unions.  But, as long as marriage is the term that is used for thousands of laws on the books in federal and state laws, civil marriage is what needs to be granted to all such unions.[/quote]

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