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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: michael97123 who wrote (4075)7/31/2003 10:00:35 AM
From: gamesmistress  Read Replies (1) of 793618
 
Perhaps civil unions should be open to all in order to get benefits of partnership--med benefits for one. Perhaps Marriage should be solely a religious event apart from civil unions and then each religion could follow its own rules on who and who not could get married. Separation of church and state with no mention of marriage by government.

This is my view too. To me, any marriage not in a church/synagogue/mosque and not performed by the priest/rabbi/minister/imam is a "civil union". Heck, my wedding was a "civil union" - we got married at the Old Mill Inn by the mayor of the town and had the reception there too. And churches do make the call on who can get married there. I read an article not too long ago about a 17 year old girl, a junior in a Catholic high school, who wanted to get married. She had her parents' consent but none of the priests she contacted would marry them because in their experience 17 was too young to get married, they didn't fully understand the meaning of the commitment and the marriages didn't last. So she ended up getting married anyway, and then sued to complete her senior year in the Catholic high school, because the school also told her that if she did get married she wouldn't be allowed back because they didn't accept married students. But that's another story. :-/
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