A Solution to Gay Marriage: Remove the Word Marriage

[spicedogs]

 

According to this article in Time magazine, one way of solving the problem we have against gay marriage is to remove the word "marriage" and create the word "civil union." In other words, you exchange your vows in a civil court or perhaps have a civil ceremony and get a certificate that says that legally you are a couple and, as a couple you have legal rights. If a couple is adamant about being "married," after the civil ceremony, they would go to a religious facility to get married.

I know that in Europe that's how you get married. First you have a small ceremony in court and then the bigger ceremony in your religious facility. I wonder what this new way of tying the knots would do to the wedding industry. Could civil ceremonies be handled in lavish halls? I guess that it could. My daughter’s officiate was friend of the family. He was a medical doctor. In Maryland anyone can marry you. But just for good measure, he became ordained with the Universal Life Church.

 

 

Comments

[lilygcs.livejournal.com]

I would love to see equal rights for everyone, whether it's letting same sex partners get married or changing it so everyone, straight or not, enter into a civil union.

It's absolutely tragic that people in a committed and loving relationship are barred from seeing their partner while sick and possible dying, that when one partner passes the other is left in possible financial disaster due to estate taxes and inheritance laws.

I can only imagine the heartbreak for the couples affected by Prop 8 in California. To have finally won the right to be married, to in effect be equal to a heterosexual couple, and then to have it taken away, must have been devastating. Not only for the couple, but their children and families.