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Old 11-24-2008, 08:35 AM   #133 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Merlin99 View Post
Looking at how everyone has responded to this, it looks like marriage is a church function and a civil union is a government function. If that's the case why not go with it, if they can find a church willing to perform the service they're married, if they go to the courthouse then they have a union?
nope, civil no matter how you look at it. Any church that "Marries" them is not in accordance with the Bible and therefore is not a real church with values anyway.
Civil union will give them everything they claim to want, I dont see the problem with this.
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