Re: [UUPoly-L] the VP debate last night

[Linda Fingerson <slyypper@hotmail.com>]

Bill said:

<snip>
> The problem (for me) -- What if my faith group (Unitarian, Pagan) thinks  
> it's okay to marry gay couples?  None of the major candidates thinks we  should 
> be allowed to!
>  
> If gay couples are given all the benefits of marriage, and my faith group  
> wants to marry them, WHY NOT???
>  
> Bill

 From the GLAAD site, which quotes from a Wolf Blitzer interview with Obama on CNN:

<snip> "Well, I think that marriage has a religious connotation in this
society, in our culture, that makes it very difficult to disentangle
from the civil aspects of marriage. And as a consequence, it would be
extraordinarily difficult and a distraction to try to build a consensus
around marriage for gays and lesbians. What we can do is form civil
unions that provide all the civil rights that marriage entails to
same-sex couples. And that is something that I have consistently been
in favor of. And I think that the vast majority of Americans don't want
to see gay and lesbian couples discriminated against when it comes to
hospital visitation and so on."<snip>

My original post was more about rights under marriage or civil union than the right to perform marriages.

Cheers!  Linda

> From: WABaldwin@aol.com
> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:48:13 -0400
> To: uupoly-l@uupa.org
> Subject: Re: [UUPoly-L] the VP debate last night
> 
>  
> I'm not a legal scholar (I don't even play one on TV!).
>  
> It sounded to me like Biden was saying, committed gay couples should get  all 
> the benefits of marriage -- but "we won't call it marriage".
>  
> The reason for "not calling it marriage"? -- "That's an issue for  particular 
> faith groups to decide" (that's more or less what he said, as an  
> afterthought -- and a rather mumbled one.  Perhaps he was afraid someone  would ask him 
> to explain what he meant!).
>  
> The problem (for me) -- What if my faith group (Unitarian, Pagan) thinks  
> it's okay to marry gay couples?  None of the major candidates thinks we  should 
> be allowed to!
>  
> If gay couples are given all the benefits of marriage, and my faith group  
> wants to marry them, WHY NOT???
>  
> Bill
>  


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