On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > How about this - let the government grant civil unions to any two > individuals who want the legal benefits (and burdens) of being > contractually bound to another person, heterosexual or otherwise. > No civil unions without a series of classes, because a lawful civil union is exactly what I'm talking about when I talk about "marriage". > > Then if you want to be married, go to a church. Let the church > control marriage as a ritual and they can force you to go to all the > classes and jump through all the hoops they want. > The people who jumped through all the hoops are MUCH more likely to remain married. I think that's the point. Religion gets hokie when it comes to marriages, but they got one thing right about it: stop,think, prepare...before doing it. -- The suburbs have no charms to soothe The restless dream of youth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:319150 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
