Originally Posted by /^Blackmagik^\
I am conservative, but i oppose state governed marriage altogether. what i don't get is how liberal people can argue that a plaque with the 10 commandments in a courthouse is unconstitutional, but state sanctioned marriage, whether it be hetero or homosexual is constitutional? marriage is by definition a religious union between a man and a woman, so what happened to the seperation of church and state? this can't be a new idea, i just don't see how state sanctioned marriage of any kind is constitutional.
Marriage once wasn't "sanctioned" at all except as a way to form a union between two families for money or property and to create and heir to keep the bloodlines going. Up until the late 1500's the church wasn't even involved until the the Council of Trent decreed that a priest and two witnesses were needed to validate the marriage. So if we were to go back to the original meaning of marriage, a homosexual union would be frowned upon because a child could not be produced from a mixing of the two families, thereby weakening the family line and their hold on any property the have.