As for the idea of government laws and religious marriage, they are completely seperate. The government could only define the LEGAL definition of marriage, meaning that in order to gain the legal benefits and recognition of marriage, you have to meet these criteria. This is completely indipendent from what any individual religion wants to classify as "marriage". As such, any law would not be seen to "favor" one religion over another, even if the law tends to jive with what some religions view as marriage.
Of course, some people will argue differently, that religious views can drive legislative action....which may be a valid arguement in some cases.
Brian
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From: Doug White
To: CF-Community
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: Senate rejects move to ban same-sex marriage
There is already a couple that fall into that category - Unitarian is one.
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Wouldn't the easy way to deal with this is create a religion that
allows/endorses homosexual unions that way the government couldn't make a
law that favors one religion over another?
Marlon
IIRC There was a fairly big news story about one of the protestant variations
doing just this. Their leadership had voted, by a narrow margin albeit, to
allow homosexual ministers/preachers/priests/whatever they called it in their
organization, apparently recognizing that segment of their congregations.
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