Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know...
I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.