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[velessa]

Woohoo! Well, still a long way to go but definitely a step in the right direction:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/04/california.same.sex.ruling/index.html

SO FUCK YOU, MORMONS AND HOMOPHOBES! Equal rights for all Americans!

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[velessa.livejournal.com]

Maybe we just need different terminology. As a non-religious person, the word "marriage" just means the legal binding and nothing more; it has zero to do with religion to me. *shrug* The problem is that for others "marriage" means ONLY a religious thing. Of course I'd like to do away with organized religions altogether... I agree we ought to just avoid all the confusion with separate words to distinguish between legal and religious unions.

[mutive.livejournal.com]

Yes, and to me the easiest way to do that would be to say "civil unions are what we do as far as legal rights go" while "marrige is whatever you want to make of it".

I think that there's a lot of logic in separating the two, as many people want the legalities of marriage without the spiritual stuff, and others want the spirtual stuff without the legal stuff. Why not make a clear line between them?