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Author Topic:   Maine legalizes gay marriage
kjsimons
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Message 8 of 92 (507663)
05-07-2009 8:40 AM
Reply to: Message 6 by Stagamancer
05-07-2009 3:25 AM


Re: Missed it Taz
Which why we need to take the power of granting legally binding marriages from the churches and give it solely to the state.
As far as I know in the US, the state doesn't recognise marriages except for those that have a state issued marriage license or common law marriages that a court has recognised. It's this piece of paper that makes the marriage legally binding, not that the wedding took place in a church or was preformed by a priest. So the churches already don't have this power.

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kjsimons
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Message 33 of 92 (507760)
05-07-2009 7:50 PM
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True, but the state allows religious figures (priests, rabbis, etc) to act on behalf of the state and issue marriage licenses
They allow them to sign and witness the marriage, but you still have to goto the Clerk of Court or some other government office yourself to get the marriage license to hand over to them to sign. They are more like a public notary then anything else as far as the government is concerned.

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