• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I never understood the gays who voted no on a referendum back in the 2000s and justified it with some religious and heteronormative bs like “marriage is from religion by religion” and “we’re the outliers, so we shouldn’t make people conform to us”. Like, how self-hating and backstabbing can you be. If you don’t want it, you don’t have to have it but let others realize their dreams at nobody’s expense.

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      9 months ago

      I do agree that marriage is a religious thing and I wouldn’t care at all, but getting married brings a lot of benefits.

      So its not like gay people want to “realize their dreams” but we want the same benefits that straight people have.

      If religious people dont want to accept gay people, then benefits shouldn’t be given based on religious acts like marriage.

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        9 months ago

        Marriage is not religious. Getting married in a church, with a priest and before God is the religious part.

        In a lot of countries you can get married without any religion being involved. Some government officials will then officiate the wedding.