With the gay marriage debate raging once I again, I fear that if we allow the act to be changed to accommodate these people, this will just be the tip of the ice berg because I doubt they will be satisfied with just being allowed to marry.

What happens if a church chooses not to marry them, or, as many like myself simply won't recognize them as being married in the way I am.

The simple solution is to amend the act allowing for a second, even a third or fourth verse, like, two people, a man and a man or a woman and a woman.

What's the problem with that.

Of cause the gays would suggest that's not allowing them to be recognized as being equal, but hang on, they're not equal in marriage and never can be because they are of the same sex.

No one is going to insist that it be made legal for churches to marry them.

Men and men as well as woman and woman are equal it is only in bigoted minds like yours that they are not equal.

rehctub, The very fact intense emotion is shown toward you by ponde is evidence there is serious division between sections of society. If you do not agree with her you are a bigot. Yes homosexuals wanting marriage will challenge any celebrant who refuses to marry them as man and wife in court, as it to homosexuals it is discrimination.

NOTE: the big issue for them is "DISCRIMINATION", and they think by changing the law that will change social attitude. It won't of course as is evidenced by states that have allowed same sex marriage. They do not recognise they are using the term identifying the reproductive system, "sex"; and any intelligent person knows that they are not biologically married.

I know where you're coming from, rehctub. I have had similar concerns about interracial couples and their "marriages".

We don't even know what their children are when they're born. Are they black, white, yellow?

Their marriages can never be equal to mine. Now if a church has a problem with marrying an interracial couple, they can be sued for racial discrimination!

Homosexuality at least occurs in nature. Two people of different races never paired up until the multiculturalists started our culture's downward spiral into self-distruction. Interracial "marriage" is unnatural and an abomination, and I will never accept it.

The word "marriage" was taken. Why couldn't they find their own word!

//and any intelligent person knows that they are not biologically married.//

Like elephant seals, where one dominant male gets to service a harem of 40 to 50 females? Sign me up for some of this 'biological marriage' business ;)

You fat elephant seal!