> Key wrote:

> Love is love.  Lust is lust.  Marriage is between two people who love each other, that they wish to live together for the rest of their life.  Denying someone the opportunity to marry just because their not the same sex is purely a Religious Edict.

In the United States of America, Church and State are seperate.  Our LAWS will NOT be dictacted to us by the Church, ever!  The minute some idiotic pompous windbag of a politician starts shoving religios doctrine of what god says we can or can't do, is when the church has stepped over the line.

The sex of the couple in a marriage is something that is ingrained in our societal beleifs; whether its origins are religious or not has no relevance. Murder is wrong in most religions, that doesn't mean that the state can't outlaw murder; our society recognizes murder as wrong, so we outlaw it; society has always recognized marriage as an institution between a man and a wife, and just because many religions do too, doesn't mean we can't keep the institution between a man and a wife. Our country's founders were christian and most if not all the principles the country was founded on are christian.