because the system only up to this point recognized your definition of marriage. It intentionally carved out people who don't match that definition. And as a result, laws designed around that archaic way of viewing things. Intentionally harmed non conforming couples.
Said couples want to marry, they want to have their wedding day and have it recognized by the state, but previously couldn't.
Marrying is not exclusive to Christianity, sorry to tell you that.
Additionally, straight couples would have a unfair advantage against gay ones, due to laws up until 2015, and this new law.
https://www.investopedia.com/financ...vs.-common-law-what-it-means-financially.aspx
- Eligibility to receive Social Security benefits as long as they can prove the number of years they lived together in a common-law state2324
- Qualifying for employer benefits through their spouse, such as health insurance
- Exemption from the gift tax for gifts to each other
- Unlimited marital exemptions for their estate up to the federal estate tax limit
- Claiming deductions for mortgage interest (if they co-own a house) and children (if applicable)
- Inheritance of their spouse’s property as long as there is a valid will (but if a spouse dies without a will, their children and other family members assume the inheritance rights, leaving the surviving common-law spouse with none)
- Use of a medical power of attorney (POA) designating their common-law spouse as the person (rather than another family member) to make medical decisions when they are incapable.
Being unable to file together, unable to gift each other without possibly taxing each other, unable to do deductions together, they all add up. The IRS wil not allow you to file jointly either if you're not legally married.
Is loving another person that isn't the opposite sex truly sinful?
I love my partner as much as they love me. As much as your significant other, loves you.
The only difference we have, is that I will respect your love to your loved one, but you won't respect mine, to the person I love, purely because of aesthetics.
You don't care about my(or people like me) devotion to our loved one(s)
You don't care how true we keep to each other, honesty, love, compassion, trust, none of that matters.
You'll use the that one difference, as ammunition to call us undeserving. And use religion as your shield for when people call out on your hatred.
I was taught several religious and spiritual concepts as a kid. From Christianity, for the brief time my mom exposed it to me, altruism, caring for others, doing what you can to help others was what I pulled from it. From Buddhism, the concept of inner-balance in oneself. And from wiccan, concepts of balance with life, and effectively the concept of karma.
I don't have a religion or spiritual belief, you can call me an atheist. If god, in the christian sense, created me in his image, then people, like me, are a part of that image.
Your just using your devotion to your religion, to the dogma you and others have, as an excuse to cover hatred.
To wield the title of Christian, and say "I'm not a terrible person, I'm Christian" while going against christian beliefs in your actions.