Same-sex marriage

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In the modern world marriage has become more of a business contract than a spiritual union, how many people get married every day that have little religious beliefs or backgrounds? The original principles behind marriage no longer matter as much as they once did.

Where the hell did you get that idea from?? The rise in divorces does not necessarily mean that the sanctity of marriage has eroded. It just means that peoples ideas and motivations have changed to the point where they can admit when a marriage has failed rather than the more traditional staying together as a loveless couple. Marriage has changed, I'll give you that, with private ceremonies often being favoured over big churchy things, but should that really matter?

Nobodys actually arguing against same sex marriage at the moment, so i wont reiterate the points you guys have already made. Just a short little comment about that news article... it seemed to be very anti- house of lords. Now as much of a little anarchist that i am, i quite appreciate that at least a small part of our government can look further than the next election, and a lot of really dumb laws have been blocked by them despite being unelected. But thats waaaaay off-topic.