Gay Marriage Approved by New York Senate

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AGDee

I'm always kind of flabbergasted by the people who think marriage is a religious event first and then a civil event. It is clearly civil first because you have to have a license, from the government. You can get married without religion involved. You can't get married without the government involvement.

Tell that to the polygamists who consider themselves very married despite the lack of government approval.

You can get married without government involvement. The marriage just won't be recognized by the state.

Dr Phil is right -- people will emphasize the primacy of marriage in the religious sense or marriage in the legal sense depending on their own opinions and beliefs.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

You can get married without government involvement. The marriage just won't be recognized by the state.

Yes, this is what I was thinking when I read that. In some of those countries discussed earlier where civil and religious marriages are separate events, it's not uncommon to do one and not the other...including the religious without the civil.