Philip Newton's journal

Ok, so I was going through my e-mail, looking for another e-mail of yours and found this.

And you replied to yourself, saying

"But while I'm still not sure on what my position about a legal union would be, I'd say it's certainly less strict than my position on a religious union.

Not because I feel differently about the union, but because I feel it need not necessarily be legislated to the same standards."

Which I probably never saw because, well, erm, it's your journal, only you got notified.

And it's years later, but I wanted to say this.

In America anyway, they are separated.

All those people who just go to the courthouse to get married by a Justice of the Peace nd get married, well, they're married in the eyes of the state. Some religions will accept that as a valid marriage, some won't. And, lots of same sex couples for instance can be married by their religious whatever, but the state doesn't recognize it.

And, last I checked, Bush wasn't the Pope, or any kind of religious leader whatsoever, so he isn't the one making decisions on whether or not various sects of various religions will recognize same sex marriage.

Hmm....I am still wound up. Maybe I should post my own...