Originally Posted by StaticX27

I supposed you didn't read the whole thing, because I answered that question. To answer your laziness, marriage provides a number of other benefits such as joint accounts, shared insurance policies (hey look, you can qualify for insurance through your work place by being married or being a child of the primary beneficiary), hospital visitation rights (family only?), immigration privledges (countries that don't have as detailed records about a family's geneology, cousins could marry each other for the purpose of getting a green card) and a multitude of other benefits extended to tax breaks all the way to getting free tickets to shows in Vegas (went with my girlfriend, and we couldn't qualify because we didn't live at the same address *tear*). Those are various things you can't qualify for with these "binding agreements among themselves."

As I mentioned, the movie "I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry" was a prime argument against same sex marriage that had absolutely no roots in religion. It provides loopholes to qualifying for various things in our society that are marriage concentric, which is a strong reason to oppose same sex marriage. However, if religion is your only reason for opposing it, as I stated, you're just enforcing your beliefs on other people and infringing on their happiness. In other words, if religion is your only reason for opposing gay marriage, then you're no different than the bigots who opposed African American rights, or Women's rights. No where does it indicate that law should follow religion, and no where is it defined that religion determines "right" and "wrong," so why is it religion is determining right and wrong in this situation? Fear and Closed-mindedness is the answer to that question.