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There’s a lot of stink over this Proposition 8 being passed. Here is a solution: let’s make marriages a religious thing and just give out civil unions for everyone. This way, anyone can have a civil union with whoever they want. This solves everything.

Then what will become of marriages? It’ll become a strict religious ceremony. It’ll be religious as a baptism or a communion—both of which secular people have no interest taking part of. This way we won’t have these debates, the church and state will be separate, and we’ll live happily ever after.

Then again, non-theists would probably say that there was a such thing called marriage before the popular religions were established. On the other hand, theists can say that since God created the world from the beginning, He also created marriage with it. Which means that marriage was always synonymous with theism. So there could be debate of that. Well, you can’t win them all. I guess pesudo-intellectual people who love to argue for the sake of arguing will debate about everything.

On a Different Note

One reason I propose this is because of the differences between getting married at a court house and getting married at a religious institution. For example, we had to fill out 3-4 pages of personal information about our faith and ourselves to be considered to be married at Mt. Paran’s. Not only that, we had to go through a month long, mandatory pre-marital counseling session.

At a court house, you just have to show up and the judge will marry you in 5 minutes.

Also most churches view marriage as something more than just a contract. This means that 2 people are physically bonded into one. It’s like two cells joining together into one cell. So separating that cell back into 2 cells is extremely difficult and painful.¹ The church kind of don’t like it when their members get divorced.

In a more secular marriage, all you have between the husband and wife is a piece of paper saying they’re married. It’s still messy and hurts a lot, but it’s easy to do.

By the way, Christian couples get divorced just as much as non-Christian ones. So I guess it’s easy for everyone.

What Was My Original Point?

I propose California to change all marriages into “Civil Unions.” And for the religous people who want to remain “married” can do so via their religious institution. So maybe in 20 years, couples will say, “we’re in a civil union.” Or if they’re religious, they’ll say they’re married.

1. I’m not a Biologist so don’t nitpick here. I have no idea how cells work [↩]