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Originally posted by bloodrayne
If our country TRULY practices 'freedom of religion' and 'separation of church and state'...Why aren't Pagan, Wiccan, Native American, and all other 'ritualistic' forms of marriage accepted?
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I was having a similar debate with a friend one time and he brought up the point that "Seperation of church and state' is the biggest myth around. It doesn't say that anywhere in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights."
Well, after he said that I decided to look into it, and you know what? He was right. It doesn't say it in there anywhere. (At least not that I could find.) Anyone know where in our country's documents, it actually says this passage?
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What I mean is...If EVERYONE'S religion, is relevant and respected...WHY are only 'Christian' marriage ceremonies accepted by LAW?
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It is because the term
marriage is a Christian term. Wiccans can either get legally married by a justice of the peace or they could even start up their own tradition of something along the lines of marriage, but 'marriage' is, and has always been, a Christian sacrament/term.
How that Christian sacrament came to double as a legal definition is beyond me, but it happened. (This is where sep. of church & state would be nice. Religious terms should not double as legal definitions. It can only create problems... like the one we are presently discussing.)