Shadow Footprints

Link: http://www.stonesoup.co.nz/chinashop/archives/003720.html

Iona, at Bull in a China Shop, looks at the issue of civil unions being marriage lite and instead sees that marriage is civil union in drag. She is not aware of who first coined the phrase that the Civil Union Bill is simply the Marriage Act in drag.

My previous arguments have been that the meaning of the word marriage has changed since governments forced marriages to be legal agreements and made themselves the third party in the relationship. By automatically giving priests the legal right to be witness to a union has muddied the waters. A church blessing on a union legally should be no different to a baptism.