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[–]HelloMomo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm really not. I get that you don't like the social trapping of marriage or something, and in your heard they're tied up with the word "marriage", and you think that rebranding is the way to solve that. There are midst of so many political words game messes already pending. I feel like this idea has already been tested, and — from what I've seen of other cases of it — it's an absolute mess.

If you think trading out old words for new clean words without any baggage, could you name an example of this that you think went well? One that you'd like to model your proposed word change after?

[–]chazzstrong 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

See, this is what I mean by obtuse. You know the term 'marriage' is far more than just a word to people of faith. Again, it's considered a Sacrament in the Catholic faith. You know what that means, correct? Removing 'marriage' from government vernacular means everyone would be on even footing, there would be no debate about marriage vs unions or 'gay marriage' or any of that bullshit. Everyone would be joined in Civil Unions with the same rights and benefits regardless of sexuality, and there would be no room for debate. And then Churches could 'marry' their parishioners in accordance to their beliefs. This would also fit nicely into another of my ideas: removing Churches from the domain of 'non-profit'. Let them tithe and charge for the ceremony for whatever they want, and then we can tax them like any other business.

I'm not a politician or a legislator, I'm not about to unfold my grand scheme to get this codified into law. This is just a route I personally would applaud, and one that I think would solve a lot of problems on both sides of the ideological aisle.