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I still don't understand how marriage should be the state's business in the first place.

>> ^rebuilder:

I still don't understand how marriage should be the state's business in the first place.


Well, essentially it's a legal contract. You each endow the other partner with certain rights (medical decisions for instance).

So in that sense I understand how it's the states business. I fail to understand how it's anyone else's.

>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^rebuilder:
I still don't understand how marriage should be the state's business in the first place.

Well, essentially it's a legal contract. You each endow the other partner with certain rights (medical decisions for instance).
So in that sense I understand how it's the states business. I fail to understand how it's anyone else's.


To listen to the discussion around the matter, that really doesn't seem to be the sticking point. And even if it were, I still don't see why it's the state's business. Why do you need an exclusive institution to let people make such contracts among themselves? Whether or not homosexuals may marry is just one aspect of the problem. What about, say, polygamy?

There's got to be a better way to give family units the legal protections offered by marriage without making arbitrary decisions about what kind of family qualifies.