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You don't need permission from the government to marry, you can do it yourself in the woods. But if you want all the benefits of a government sanctioned marriag
by unfamiliar 11y ago
You don't need permission from the government to marry, you can do it yourself in the woods. But if you want all the benefits of a government sanctioned marriage then you have to be married in the eyes of the government.
- jasonjei 11y agoI agree. But that's why we have the marriage inequality problem.
- donatj 11y agoThat's why the government version shouldn't be called marriage.
- r00fus 11y agoAt this point, it's semantics. In France there is a thing called PACS [1], which is kind of what you refer to. However to make that equivalently semantic "government version" union would require changing of a large amount of legal text (e.g. taxation legislation). If the "government version" was simply a stand-in for "married" (i.e., reusing the variable) then what difference has been achieved even semantically? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_solidarity_pact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_solidarity_pact