...it's not historically correct (at least from a Euro-centric perspective). Government has MORE business in the process of marriage than the churches....
There's no reason to overhaul the whole system. There's no reason to make a complicated new set of laws to create a separate but equal condition. Use the laws we already have, and give people equal access and protections under those laws. Simply put, two people who love each other should have the ability to MARRY. Period, end of story.
Yes, I would prefer that answer myself, in the best of all possible worlds. I was brought up to believe marriage was primarily about love, and that sex was the icing on the cake.
The question is whether we have any reasonable hope of achieving that, over the sincere and visceral objections of many millions of people for whom declaring a same-sex couple to be married is as patently and unalterably false as declaring pi to be equal to three.
I'd be willing to hand over the word "marriage" to the religious organizations, if it meant getting religious organizations out of the business of defining who pays how much income tax by the shapes of their sex organs.
OTOH, given that Prop. 8 passed by only 52/48, maybe we can just wait for a few more homophobes to die off, and things will work out eventually.
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Date: 2008-11-07 04:45 am (UTC)There's no reason to overhaul the whole system. There's no reason to make a complicated new set of laws to create a separate but equal condition. Use the laws we already have, and give people equal access and protections under those laws. Simply put, two people who love each other should have the ability to MARRY. Period, end of story.
Yes, I would prefer that answer myself, in the best of all possible worlds. I was brought up to believe marriage was primarily about love, and that sex was the icing on the cake.
The question is whether we have any reasonable hope of achieving that, over the sincere and visceral objections of many millions of people for whom declaring a same-sex couple to be married is as patently and unalterably false as declaring pi to be equal to three.
I'd be willing to hand over the word "marriage" to the religious organizations, if it meant getting religious organizations out of the business of defining who pays how much income tax by the shapes of their sex organs.
OTOH, given that Prop. 8 passed by only 52/48, maybe we can just wait for a few more homophobes to die off, and things will work out eventually.