Quote Originally Posted by miotas View Post
Marriage isn't a religious institution, it's an institution that the church adopted.
Yes, x thousand years ago. What is relevant for us is that in western society, marriage has always been a specifically religious institution. ACIN appealed to the religious nature of marriage in saying that since the churches won't marry gay people, the government must do it to make them equal.

Quote Originally Posted by miotas View Post
If you want to argue about abolishing marriage then that is a separate issue altogether but as long as marriage is around, then it is discrimination to say that no one but hetero's can have it.
And it is also discrimination to say I can't marry my TV. And don't tell me to call it something other than marriage. I demand a tax cut for my love for my TV.

Or will homosexual couples now have to burn their marriage certificates because my love for my TV 'weakens' their marriage?