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:The line that I would take is that "marriage" is defined by God to be a husband and a wife.  If that is correct, then no amount of legislation, court decisions, or popular usage are a high enough authority to override God.  Of course many people, presumably including you, will disagree that any God did any such thing, but the point is that the issue is one of who is right about God, the issue is not one of what popular or current usage is.  [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 11:30, 15 May 2007 (EDT)

:The line that I would take is that "marriage" is defined by God to be a husband and a wife.  If that is correct, then no amount of legislation, court decisions, or popular usage are a high enough authority to override God.  Of course many people, presumably including you, will disagree that any God did any such thing, but the point is that the issue is one of who is right about God, the issue is not one of what popular or current usage is.  [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 11:30, 15 May 2007 (EDT)

::I think you're confusing "marriage" with "holy matrimony." God didn't say anything about my wife and I needing to sign pieces of paper to be filed at the Vital Records office, but that's "marriage" as far as the civil authorities are concerned. File the papers and you're married, don't file them and you're not married. If you want to file jointly when it comes time to render unto the Department of Revenue, that is.

::I think you're confusing "marriage" with "holy matrimony." God didn't say anything about my wife and I needing to sign pieces of paper to be filed at the Vital Records office, but that's "marriage" as far as the civil authorities are concerned. File the papers and you're married, don't file them and you're not married. If you want to file jointly when it comes time to render unto the Department of Revenue, that is.

::But in any case, if there is, say, a style sheet or conservative usage guide that calls for placing the words "same-sex marriage" within quotation marks that should be noted in the article. Or if Conservapedia just wants to do it because the phrase is considered invalid, that should be noted, too. I don't see how that argues for deleting the article, however. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 11:53, 15 May 2007 (EDT)

::But in any case, if there is, say, a style sheet or conservative usage guide that calls for placing the words "same-sex marriage" within quotation marks that certainly should be mentioned in the article, and it would be a good justification for using quotation marks that way throughout the article. Or if Conservapedia just wants to do it because the phrase is considered invalid, that should be noted, too. I don't see how that argues for deleting the article, however. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 11:53, 15 May 2007 (EDT)

 

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