re: Need an explanation on homosexuality

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A marriage is a contract, it involves legal obligations between two people, and it grants certain legal rights to the two people within the contract. It makes sense for the government to be involved.

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Actually, a STATE recognized marriage is a contract. But, yes, I agree with you. My point is, there is no actual need or state recognition.

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I don't understand what is gained by your suggestion. You just want the government to use a different name for marriage? Why even bother?

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I wouldn't. I would simply say that if some couple feels highly compelled to codify certain things about their partnership in a formal govt recognized contract that they could do so.

Otherwise, if two people say they're married, they are. Period.

Yes. I can already hear your "but but buts" regarding the host of things marriage gives you access too. I submit that those things are all easily dealt with and gets the state out of marriage altogether.

Bottom line. If marriage licenses had never existed, I can think of no compelling reason why we would create them today. In fact, I suspect that if they'd never existed and someone proposed TODAY that after you've identified the person you want to be with, you had to go to the state and pay $35 so they could "recognize" it, that would be a damned tough sell.