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How our government screwed up marriage

Ok this is totally a controversial post, but it’s a very important issue for our nation, so I’m going to take a stab at expressing my views about the problems with gay marriage.

In this issue we have two sides, deeply divided. On the one side, we have gays and their supporters, who want to be able to marry who they choose, as free, right-minded citizens. On the other side you have the ‘religious zealots’ who are prepared to fight to the death to protect what they call the sanctity of marriage, as defined in the bible.

At it’s core, the issue with gay marriage seems to stem from two things: the origins of word marriage itself, and a fundamental flaw which the US government made when it decreed marriage to be a legal process.

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