08-18-2004, 10:39 AM
To Kandrathe and Griselda:
I think the government should arrange marriage. Religion and state should not go together, because anyway you will give some people more rights than others just because they are from the right religion.
Seeing the consequences of marriage to al lot of other things like, taxes, alimony, what happens to the money of the partner of he/she dies etc. it is important that the state arranges this. Here, we have to marry for the state, and if we wnat we can also do it for the church. If you skip the state one, anyone can start their own religion which allows marriage, with cats, computers, 26 wives (well we've al seen the examples in this thread).
So the government should decide what is allowed.
And as I said before, I think they should decide that gays can also get married. Being gay has nothing to do with religion, disease, mental condition or whatsoever....you are or you are not. And seeing as gays are people, they should just have the same rights as heterosexuals. The examples of "what if somebody wants to marry his cat" I find a bit ridiculous, you cannot seriously expect a state to allow these kind of things, if you want to marry your cat, you do have a mental condition. :D
The question if gay couples should be allowed to have kids is different, I would say I'm against on that one. But that is something for another time...
eppie
I think the government should arrange marriage. Religion and state should not go together, because anyway you will give some people more rights than others just because they are from the right religion.
Seeing the consequences of marriage to al lot of other things like, taxes, alimony, what happens to the money of the partner of he/she dies etc. it is important that the state arranges this. Here, we have to marry for the state, and if we wnat we can also do it for the church. If you skip the state one, anyone can start their own religion which allows marriage, with cats, computers, 26 wives (well we've al seen the examples in this thread).
So the government should decide what is allowed.
And as I said before, I think they should decide that gays can also get married. Being gay has nothing to do with religion, disease, mental condition or whatsoever....you are or you are not. And seeing as gays are people, they should just have the same rights as heterosexuals. The examples of "what if somebody wants to marry his cat" I find a bit ridiculous, you cannot seriously expect a state to allow these kind of things, if you want to marry your cat, you do have a mental condition. :D
The question if gay couples should be allowed to have kids is different, I would say I'm against on that one. But that is something for another time...
eppie