The Future of Love. was Re: [extropy-chat] Gay marriage in Spain, a world of change, biology, last post, post, etc.

[Bret Kulakovich]

... But by involving government, and having a separation of church  
and state (ok stop laughing, Rob) we are bypassing religion, aren't we?



On Jul 22, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Robert Lindauer wrote:

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>> On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:27 PM, Al Brooks wrote:
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>>> Though I support all rights & full legal marriage for gays, it is  
>>> good to see reasonable dissenting views.
>>>
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>> Name one 'reasonable' dissenting view.
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> The only, I think, reasonable dissenting view would be the purely  
> religious objection that Marriage is a Sacred and Holy thing  
> ordained by God.
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> The only reasons to reject it are substantive ones for which there  
> aren't any obviously definitive arguments (prove "God doesn't  
> exist." or "God didn't ordain marriage" or "God doesn't care what  
> people do", etc.).  It's sufficient for a dissenting view to not  
> have any definitive arguments against it to call them reasonable.
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> However, I don't think such a position would necessarily carry over  
> to having any consequences for a secular government and though a  
> dilution of what is meant by "marriage" might occur (we'd just have  
> to specify what -kind- of married two people are - church-married  
> or not-church-married) this would really just be a continuance of  
> the already evolved meaning of the term.
>
> With suprisingly high regards for all,
>
> robbie lindauer
>
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