Monday, May 16, 2011
Small Essay on Gay Marriage
My problem with Gay Marriage really has nothing to do with gays and more to do with marriage. It's become pretty obvious to me after hearing all the debates that marriage and the ceremonies that go along with it are a personal choice and have nothing to do with laws and politics. For this reason I think instead of pushing for gay marriage, we should be pushing for civil unions for all couples, and if you want to call yourselves married and have a ceremony for it, that is your choice and you can do that all separately. This way everyone is entitled to the legal benefits that are typically associated with marriage, and everyone has the freedom to define marriage as whatever the hell they want.
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I think an important step in this process would be making the two things VERY separate. Specifically taking away any legal connection to the word marriage, taking away the legal rights of clergy to give people anything other than a ceremony. Sure, they can have the ceremony, but everyone would need to go down to the local gov and get a civil union license.
That and I personally kind of think the idea of civil unions only being about love to be bs. People have life partnerships for all sorts of reasons. It doesn't matter if you are having sex. If two people wish to combine their assets and dependency for whatever reason...let them...groups of people even.
I totally agree with the "doesn't have to be about love" thing. What if two siblings wanted to combine their assets, or two friends that live together etc...
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