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Nov. 7th, 2004 03:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluebeardYou support Gay Marriage 75% |
alright, so there's the meme.
um, it makes me want to ask a simple question:
what the hell does marriage have to do with government? why should I be viewed differently as a citizen simply because of my relationship status? eh?
I could be with a man, a woman, or a handful of each, and still have the same needs as far as the government is concerned.
why should I, or anyone else, need a piece of paper declaring that I'm "with" another individual?
fuck gay marriage. actually, fuck marriage in general -- it ain't got nothing to do with anything.
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Date: 2004-11-07 08:32 am (UTC)The government has a legitimate interest in recognising the formation of a household - things like shared property rights, taxes, inheritance, changes in next-of-kin status. Personally I'd say that equal protection means that they should therefore recgnise all households in exactly the same way, no matter their composition.
Since at the time that these laws were written, the way households were formed was almost univerally via a marriage ceremony, and the church kept all the records, civil law made a huge mistake and used the same word in formulating statutes.
In the strictly legal context, however, "marriage" means something entirely distinct from any religious meaning. Its way time that we recognised this and separated the religious concept of marriage completely from any legal recognition of a households formation.