[Arguing that gay marriage is not "banned"]
Then perhaps you should provide this evidence that proves gays are jailed for having a ceremony and calling it a marriage - you know, the enforcement that would come with forbidding, etc.
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Well, I'd say he's right. It's not "banned" - you can still do it. It's just not recognized by the state, i.e. it's not really marriage, although you can call it such.
This is, of course, still very bad.
Hopefully, he's just a moron who doesn't know that marraige is essentially a legal contract, and not a bigot who thinks that depriving people of their rights is fine as long as they can pretend to have them.
Nick got it exactly right. There are many same-gender couples who have been married in religious ceremonies but whose marriages are not recognized by the state. Therefore, this original poster is correct. That doesn't make it right, though.
While the ceremony is called a marriage, it doesn't have the legal standing of a heterosexual marriage, thereby making all of this a clear-cut case of the religious majority stamping out a religious minority they don't like. Wheeeeeee!
not banned..not illegal..just NOT legal and 100% lame!!
Actually, it depends on your definition of the word "ban," but any way you slice it I'm pretty sure there will never be jailing involved (assuming rational minds prevail).
Gays are not jailed for marrying each other because they need the state's cooperation to get married in the legal sense. Without that cooperation, which they CANNOT get, they cannot get married, so there's nothing to punish them for; it's just that they are, in an absolute sense, PREVENTED from getting married, whether you want to call it a "ban" or whatever.
It's really very simple, and any argument that they can still call it "marriage" when their legal rights are not equal to those of heterosexual married couples is inane, obfuscatory, and deliberately obtuse.
~David D.G.
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