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[bluebeard]

This whole marriage debate thing still gets on my nerves.

Cluepon: the government cannot validate or invalidate your relationships.

It can confer "rights", but all the "rights" associated with those stupid pieces of paper are all mashed up into a really fucked up healthcare system that should be revamped from the bottom up anyway.

I don't really care what the government leaders, Christians, heteronormatives, assimilationists or other groups think about my relationship structures. Those are for me, and, really, once I've got a living will, a last will, a DNR, and granted my powers of attorney there's no rights left to confer to other people anyway.

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[matrixx.livejournal.com]

I agree. I resent the fact that anyone should have to ask the government for permission to marry and that any legal status is derived from a personal commitment. If the government is to be involved at all, in my opinion it should be only in the capacity of enforcing contracts that parties entering a marriage have drawn up on their own.

[darkfader.livejournal.com]

well said!

I wish more people would get this..