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I don't see why the word "marriage" makes it religious at all and I don't see why calling it something different would make anything better. To me that seems like "seperate but equal". It's like saying you can have your little union, but you can't use our special words and that doesn't make any sense to me. Many religions and cultures have the institute of marriage so I don't understand why one religion or another can claim it as their sacred practice.
And I don't see how this is being forced upon anyone either. It's like some people believe that people are being gay *at* them. Like they're forcing it upon them and being gay just to offend them and challenge what they believe in when really they're just being who they are and living their lives like anyone else.
Again, people need to keep in mind that this is, in fact, a legal issue. They're not asking for it to be accepted by a particular religion. They just want the same rights as everyone else. It wasn't too very long ago in our country's history that a white person and a black person weren't legally allowed to marry and there were people who would quote you scriptures from the Bible on that as well.
Gay people have been around for as long as there have been people on Earth. They just have more of a luxury of being open about it and that makes some people uncomfortable. But unfortunately for them, the world is constantly changing and there are just some things that are going to keep moving forward. This is something that will happen eventually. It's just a matter of time.