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I agree with just about everything you wrote here, except your point about marriage. If you are a Christian, then you know that it is an institution ordained by God. It is far more than a "word" and a legal recognition.[/quote]

And herein lies the crux of one of one of the major problems.  There are two types of marriages that are being discussed.  You have religious marriages which are institutions ordained by God.  And you have civil marriages which are licensed and recognized by the government.  When laws and documents were originally drafted, the two were pretty closely parallel and our forefathers did not see the need to distinguish them.  Unfortunately, in the hundred plus years, they have diverged so that there are now many legal rights and privileges invested in the latter that are required by law to be extended to all citizens regardless of the gender of either partner.  However, staunch Christians are trying to impose restrictions of religious marriage on civil marriages and thereby creating a two-tier system of those who have access to the thousands of legal rights granted to married couples and those who do not have those rights.  It's unfortunate that we can't differentiate the two legally, but the cost to change the laws, the documentation of the laws, the forms and the procedures to account for the separation of the religious and civil marriages in government documents would be huge and frankly the federal, state and local governments really can't afford that much paperwork.  So, we're stuck with one word and the need to ensure that all citizens are granted equal protection under the law.

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And even if you want to argue in favor of "separate but equal" (we know how well that goes), Kim Davis is not a religious officiant refusing to marry a gay couple in her church -- something I think sucks, but is perfectly within the rights of a church.

She is a government official refusing to give a civil marriage license to a gay couple. Not ok.
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