tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206230760891278528.post8261917614374129140..comments2023-10-31T17:09:36.316+00:00Comments on The Long Walk Home: What has #ge2010 taught us about marriage equality?Jae Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17816403017115766947noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206230760891278528.post-91001871381101338082010-05-05T20:17:50.212+01:002010-05-05T20:17:50.212+01:00Brown's response is simply muddled. By his ar...Brown's response is simply muddled. By his argument, straight civil marriage shouldn't be called "marriage", either.<br /><br />What he says is perhaps testimony to the extent to which the religious have succeeded in claiming marriage as peculiarly their own, so much so that a lot of people think that somehow civil marriage is religious marriage entered into without any sort of religious ceremony. Straights who disdain civil marriage sometimes actually say it's because they don't hold with all the "whom God hath joined" stuff.<br /><br />PaulPaul Brownseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00764726326208869989noreply@blogger.com