Can you really "protect the sanctity of marriage"?

Question

I'm talking about civil marriage, not religious marriage. They are two separate things.

One of the main arguments I hear against gay marriage is that marriage is sacred and has a sanctity that must be protected, and it will be broken if gays are allowed to be married. But if it's just civil marriage, a simple legal procedure, is it really sacred? I mean, obviously religious marriage is sacred and if a church refuses to let gays marry in their church, then fine. But why would civil marriage have anything to do with that? Protecting the sanctity of civil marriage is like protecting the sanctity of filing a tax return.

Does this make sense? Am I missing some important piece of the puzzle?

Thanks for answering.

Answer 1

I totally agree with you. You know what's interesting, is people will argue the definition of marriage when this argument is brought up, but they like to ignore the fact that until uncomfortably recent, the definition of marriage was between a man, and woman, of the SAME RACE. So, yeah. The definition can, and HAS been changed.

Answer 2

All marriage is just a civil ceremony the only part where it matters legally in church is the bit where you go through the civil service, thus there is no more "sanctity" to church marriage simply because of spiritualistic jargon there is no difference both are civil marriages

Answer 3

To answer your main question: Yes, you CAN protect the sanctity of marriage. Your OWN. You work on your relationship with your spouse, and do your best to honor that commitment. I can not, however, protect the sanctity or your marriage, not you mine. We can, at best, support each others' efforts to do so.



You're making complete and total sense, and missing no pieces of the puzzle. That's why your viewpoint isn't accepted at normal to most people.



Horny landscapers are more of a threat to marriage than gay people are. We should pass a law that they have their venom extracted when reporting for work.

Answer 4

If Christians gave one sh*t about "The Sanctity of Marriage" and the "Traditional Family" they would 1) Work to outlaw divorce and 2) Understand that the "Traditional" form of "Family" for most of human history consisted of 1 man and multiple wives...



Of course... If Christians knew anything about their own cult, be it in their holy texts or in the history and evolution of it... they would know that the Church didn't always frown upon Homosexual Marriage.



► Definition of CULT

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cult

cult noun, often attributive \ˈkəlt\

1: formal religious veneration : worship

2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents



► Jesus affirmed a gay couple.

http://www.wouldjesusdiscriminate.org/biblical_evidence/gay_couple.html



► Gay Unions Sanctioned in Medieval Europe

http://www.livescience.com/history/070827_civil_unions.html



Of course... If "Morality" came from "God", 85% of all people in American Prisons wouldn't be Christian and 56% of marriages wouldn't end in divorce...

Answer 5

They should ban divorce, if they want to protect the sanctity of marriage. Divorce is much more of a threat to marriage than allowing homosexuals to marry each other.

Answer 6

Nah, it's civil, not religious. Plus, even if you were talking about religious marriage, gays being allowed to marry wouldn't break it. And, no, you aren't missing any pieces of any puzzle, as far as I know...

Answer 7

What "sanctity of marriage"? We have a 50% divorce rate in a nation in which Christians are an overwhelming majority.

Answer 8

I do not think marriage in general would win a popularity vote these days, gay or straight

Answer 9

Civil marriage doesn't have "sanctity". It is just a civil contract, same as a business agreement. The reason homosexuals cannot marry has nothing to do with "sanctity". It has to do with the fact it is impossible, because such an arrangement would contradict the definition of "marriage". Look it up in the dictionary. We can't keep rewriting the language and changing the meaning of words that have had the same meaning for thousands of years, whenever some special interest group decides they would like to be included in a category that doesn't include them.

Answer 10

Bingo! Look at all those countries that have allowed same sex marriage, like Canada and Norway. Has anything strange and antisocial happened there? Of course not.

Answer 11

civil marriage or religious marriage.....are exactly the same....marriage

Answer 12

With out God as a true part of a marriage ceremony, and he is never there for gay marriages, there is not marriage. so there is nothing to protect.

Answer 13

I have never used that excuse... the bible never says such a thing.