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By Covert Hawk
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The federal Defense of Marriage Act interferes with the right of Massachusetts to define and regulate marriage as it sees fit, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said.
Why should the state get to decide what Marriage is? Shouldn't it be decided by the religious institutions that practice it? I don't like the idea of states defining for us what are rights are.

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By LUconn
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I thought you were an anti-federalist.
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By flamesbball84
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Covert Hawk wrote:
The federal Defense of Marriage Act interferes with the right of Massachusetts to define and regulate marriage as it sees fit, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said.
Why should the state get to decide what Marriage is? Shouldn't it be decided by the religious institutions that practice it? I don't like the idea of states defining for us what are rights are.

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The government has to be able to define it for tax purposes. If they let the churches decide it, then they have to be answerable to the church, which violates separation of church and state and opens up a whole 'nother box of worms...
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By El Scorcho
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flamesbball84 wrote:The government has to be able to define it for tax purposes.
I'm hesitant to do this for obvious reasons, but...

Why? That's a problem with the tax system, not marriage as a religious institution.
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By flamesbball84
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El Scorcho wrote:
flamesbball84 wrote:The government has to be able to define it for tax purposes.
I'm hesitant to do this for obvious reasons, but...

Why? That's a problem with the tax system, not marriage as a religious institution.
That I know, but s the tax system going to be changing anytime soon? Doesn't look like it to me. So as long as there are tax laws regarding people's marital status, the government will have to define what marriage is in some sort of fashion.

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