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Originally Posted by martyh
No it can't and isn't .each one has it's own ritual/ceremony which carries it's own meaning but all have one thing in common ,a union between man and woman .
Hardly think a Sikh would perform a Christian ceremony anyway
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And they're all called marriage, just as the secular thing called civil marriage.
Either way: we don't accept that any religion (or religion in general) can claim the term marriage, or its definition. The reality it that there is a secular thing called marriage as well, and secular marriage is set to change. Religious institutions may decide to upgrade their definitions if they want to. If they don't that's fine, but they can't tell us what to do.