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Really? Which conservatives are those? Not this conservative. I have no desire to control someone's homosexual life inside their house. I just don't think that the government should subsidize said life.
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That would be the conservatives that enacted sodomy laws in 13 states. The supreme court struck them down in Lawrence v. Texas:
On June 26, 2003 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 3 with Justice O’Connor concurring with the majority that Texas’s “Homosexual Conduct” law is unconstitutional. Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion. The ruling effectively strikes down the sodomy laws in every state that still had them – 13 in all.
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Government gives special consideration to heterosexual marriage because that arrangement has classically been in the best interests of the nation, i.e. it can (and usually does) produce offspring.
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This argument against heterosexual marriage fails. You don’t have to have a child if you are married, nor do you have to be married to have a child. And homosexuals won’t have children whether or not they are married, so how does it harm you (or the nation) if they get married?
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I just don't want them to use the term "marriage".
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Why not? How does it harm you if they use the term marriage?
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They can be a civil union, whatever. In fact, I think that there should be two groups of people. One is people who choose to undertake a legal coupling which is then called a union or whatever. You can be gay, straight, bisexual, trisexual, transgender, I don't care. Marriage would be reserved for the church and those people that choose to undertake marriage before God.
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That’d be a good solution, if it could be implemented. The “legal” aspect of a union is done via a “marriage” certificate, but called a “union” certificate. This gives you all the legal rights that are currently assigned to marriage. If you went to a church, a priest or whatever could call you “married,” but it would have no governmental recognition. The only thing the government would recognize is the certificate that you got at the local courthouse.
However, as long as two heterosexual people can go to the courthouse and get a marriage certificate, homosexuals should be entitled to the same thing. The government should not make a distinction.