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Originally Posted by KSig RC
These cultures have absolutely no bearing on American law, nor a significant effect on the American response to laws attempting to legalize marriage for homosexuals.
It's totally irrelevant, and it's 100% a strawman - my argument does not apply anywhere except within the context of the American system of law.
If the United States were ruled by a junta or were a theocracy, obviously one moral authority could rule without any exception. Thankfully, it's not, so your examples are laughably irrelevant.
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EXACTLY!!! If the US was a nation that was run as you state, then there would be no consideration of a moral code or a religious one in terms of governing the people.
I never did say, nor, did I mean to imply that what happens outside the US should have any bearing on American law.
I posed the situation because so far in this thread people seem to want to make the issue based on one aspect or another, failing to recognize that there is some overlap among laws, morality and religion in this country when it comes to governing our lives. In some other cultures there is no overlap.
The current accepted concept of marriage in this country is legislated by laws, recognizes a legal union between a man and a woman, and this arrangement is also as promoted by Christianity, along with other religions.
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