If it were not for the scriptures of churches propagandizing this hatred and visceral disgust to the public for 2000 years, the public codifying this disgust into the law of the state, and the state wantonly executing this law upon us, I don't know if we would have had a need for a civil rights movement pushing back with a demand for basic and greater civil respect in the first place.
So it's not about gods of any kind. But, given that "marriage" is a civil arrangement while "weddings" may or may not be religious, it should not have to be about religious institutions, their associated traditions or their visceral reactions to civil society.
YES. Thank you. All of what you said, Thank You.
My only quibble is on the churches.
If it were not for the scriptures of churches propagandizing this hatred and visceral disgust to the public for 2000 years, the public codifying this disgust into the law of the state, and the state wantonly executing this law upon us, I don't know if we would have had a need for a civil rights movement pushing back with a demand for basic and greater civil respect in the first place.
So it's not about gods of any kind. But, given that "marriage" is a civil arrangement while "weddings" may or may not be religious, it should not have to be about religious institutions, their associated traditions or their visceral reactions to civil society.