>>Quite frankly, Why the HELL should anyone have to get some government a$$hole's permission to be married ?

Because the governments perform most of the marriages and essentially all of the same-sex marriages -- not churches. The churches up here are generally not big on same-sex relationships so the government's definition of marriage really does matter.

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