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Personally I don't believe in marriage at all, at least from a government perspective. Civil unions for all I say... let customary "marriage" take place in your
by jqm 13y ago
Personally I don't believe in marriage at all, at least from a government perspective.
Civil unions for all I say... let customary "marriage" take place in your church or synagogue or wooded grove or whatever and have no bearing on anyone else.
By now it seems pretty obvious that committed people should be entitled to the same legal protections regardless of sexual orientation...
That being said... not believing gay marriage is appropriate is NOT the same as believing similarly about inter-racial marriage. Some people (and I am not among these) feel marriage is a venue for biological reproduction and raising of children. And no matter how many rights gay people have, until our technology advances a bit further this is not something they are able to do. An inter-racial couple on the other hand can.
So please... stop with the "This is just like banning inter-racial marriage!" nonsense. In many peoples minds (again, not mine) it isn't.
And yes Eich was done badly. And OKCupid are bad actors in my opinion and should be called out on their nonsense. Particularly in view of threatening an open source browser.
- bashinator 13y agoIf marriage is a venue for biological reproduction, then people shouldn't get the tax breaks and other legal benefits (hospital visitation, etc) until they've done so. Maybe the marriage certificate should be provisional until the first birth? Also, adoption certainly shouldn't count, since that's something same-sex couples can also do.
- jqm 13y agoOh, I agree 100% on the tax breaks and legal benefits. This is skewed in favor of the "traditional" at the moment and this isn't fair. But, part of societies job is to insure future generations. Bottom line.... gay people can't do this.
- bashinator 13y agoStable high-income gay couples can't give adopted children a far better life opportunity (and hence increased tax income and lower social welfare costs for society at large), than if those children bounced around in foster homes until aging out?
- kenjackson 13y agoSo just ban marriage for anyone try that can't reproduce. And auto divorce those that find out they can't have children after getting married.