{"id":1367,"date":"2012-09-28T23:52:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T23:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2012-09-28T23:52:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T23:52:36","slug":"marriage-gay-or-straight-is-not-about-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/09\/marriage-gay-or-straight-is-not-about-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage \u2013 Gay or Straight \u2013 is not about religion\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marriage in the United States of America is NOT about religion. The act of getting married to someone is not a religious act. It\u2019s not based on any religion, any Bible, any book, any belief, any potion, any leader, nothing. One does not have to be religious to get married, and religious leaders do not have to preside over a marriage ceremony to make a marriage legal.<\/p>\n

Religion has no legal influence on any marriage. You do not have to hear: \u201cDearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God, and in the face of this company, to join together this Man and this Woman in holy Matrimony; which is an honorable estate, instituted of God, signifying unto us the mystical union that is betwixt Christ and his Church: which holy estate Christ adorned and beautified with his presence\u2026\u201d to have your marriage be legal.<\/p>\n

To be legally married in the United States you need a government-issued marriage license and a certificate of marriage. Period. This has nothing to do with religion \u2013 nothing.<\/p>\n

You can argue that it should have everything to do with religion if you\u2019d like, but legally, it has nothing to do with marriage.<\/p>\n

See the beauty of the First Amendment to the Constitution is that it prohibits the government from telling the many religious sects what the meaning of marriage is, AND it also stops the many religious sects from telling the government what the meaning of marriage is.<\/p>\n

Well \u2013 allegedly, that\u2019s what it was set up to do. This is where the problem begins and ends when it comes to marriage. \u2013 Religion.\u00a0 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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