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Marriage should be a social declaration of dependency, not anything romantic or sexual. If I want my dog to be able to visit me in the hospital, who are you to
by duaneb 10y ago
Marriage should be a social declaration of dependency, not anything romantic or sexual. If I want my dog to be able to visit me in the hospital, who are you to judge that? That dog is my pride and joy.
- eximius 10y agoThat is why I've ways favored the idea of having a secular, legal idea of a civil union that is independent of the baggage associated with 'marriage'. If two people want to have a joint legal status without being in a relationship, is that not a valid desire?
- duaneb 10y agoI can't agree more. There are even camps in the (academic at least) queer community that argued against gay marriage: we should not be opting to include individual minority groups (while excluding others like the poly community, though the benefits and rights with those would be an absolute headache to legislate) in heterosexual norms, but working to remove the recognition heterosexual norms from secular government. Even just renaming it from "marriage" to "civil union" would ameliorate a lot of the tension surrounding it. There's no reason a religious or personal ceremony should be of any interest to the government; it's only the rights and benefits that matter.