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AGDee, you rock. I have said for awhile that if they want to call what my husband and I have (Justice of the Peace marriage on a golf course), Meatloaf Sandwich, instead of a marriage, I don't care, but anyone should then be able to have a Meatloaf Sandwich. The fact that ministers are given the authority to perform a small part of the legal process to me is completely beside the point. And there are a lot of church rules about weddings. I could care less if the Catholic church, for instance, won't marry gay people. That's their prerogative. They wouldn't marry us because I refused to have my husband go through the annulment procedures. So I got the wedding I wanted instead of the one my mother wanted. But back to the point, a lot of Americans REALLY don't get what separation of church and state means, and this argument hits that smack on the head.
I'm sorry for North Carolina, but as a native Iowan, I say fine. It makes Iowa a LOT of money every year performing gay marriages.
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