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Article Title:	Same-Sex Marriage: Navigating The Battlefield
Author of reported comment:	Ammon
Comment Date:	23:33 on Mar 5 2013
Comment:	The simplest and best solution would be to extend the separation of church and state to the marriage question as well. It is traditional that a wedding held in a church is a legally binding union in the eyes of the government. If we end this tradition and allow religions to form marriages in a non-legally binding way while allowing the government to form legal unions without religious consequence, then we will have solved the whole problem. Churches may then form unions as they think moral and proper in the exercise of their religious freedoms without the government crying discrimination. The government may also then form its legal unions without inciting the ire of religions. Any couple of course could have both a religious and a legal marriage, but they should be separate things. As time advances there will be ever more demands to redefine legal marriage to allow even more types of "non-traditional" unions. It would be wise to separate church and state now, before the issues become more controversial.

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