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Peter, the Tirana government is full of Tosks who look to Greece for their social models instead of to the Albanian hearlands. It is hardly surprising that gay "marriage" is acceptable to them.
(Flamur, 7 May 2010 15:43)
This is a non-issue. If the State allows it, let it be and I don't see any problem. But if they insist on religious ceremony - here the leaders of local religious community have to say what is acceptable and what is not. If it's not acceptable in A-Gheg areas or in Vilnius - than let it be. If it's acceptable in A-Tosk areas, than who is involved should go there for religious ceremony if it is desired that much.
From the point of view of the State it should not matter because State and (any) Church should be separated. If they want to have that piece of paper signed by the local representative of the State - why on Earth not? I am not going to be the witness and I am not going to hold the candle in their bedroom.
And if it is about taxation - than it's fair, too. After all, the fair taxation should be not individual but based on the household. If someone has five wives and they have three husbands each - than after all, that is, too a single household - even if they won't obtain any official paperwork.
I am sure that with better taxation laws (i.e. per-household and living under same roof for extensive period of time being legally equal to marriage) the entire "gay marriage" would be mostly off the table.
But if they insist on saying "yes" before some representative of clergy - than it's a private issue of that certain religious community.
After all, I am not going to chew a large piece of pork in front of a Buddhist monk in the middle of a Buddhist monastery on Lunar New Year... Don't like that restriction? Go somewhere else on that day for a pork lunch.
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