On Friday, 04 Jun 2004 00:32:02 -0600, antimulticulture@hotmail.com
wrote:
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>When a state recognizes a marriage, it bestows upon the couple
>certain benefits which are costly to both the state and other
>individuals.
>
Which is a good reason for States to stop that practice. The States
should not discriminate people based on their stated willingness to
have kids or not.
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>Some have compared the prohibition of homo.ual marriage to the
>prohibition of interracial marriage. This analogy fails because
>fertility does not depend on race, making race irrelevant to the state
>’s interest in marriage. By contrast, homo.uality is highly relevant
>because it precludes procreation.
>
Obviously, this author has never met Hispanics. In any case, it could
be argued, and many people do just that, that there are already too
many people in the world.
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>The biggest danger homo.ual civil marriage presents is the
>enshrining into law the notion that .ual love, regardless of its
>fecundity, is the sole criterion for marriage.
>
Well, if that is the danger, then I'm all for it. The State has no
business meddling around with people's procreation decisions.
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>If the state must recognize a marriage of two men simply because they
>love one another, upon what basis can it deny marital recognition to a
>group of two men and three women, for example, or a sterile brother and
>sister who claim to love each other?
>
Indeed. Again, it's none of the State's business to determine with
whom or how many people each individual associates in a domestic
partnership.
>
>want all couples treated equally. But why is .ual love between two
>people more worthy of state sanction than love between three, or five?
>
It isn't.
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>When the purpose of marriage is procreation, the answer is obvious. If
>.ual love becomes the primary purpose, the restriction of marriage
>to couples loses its logical basis, leading to marital chaos.
>
Marital chaos is what exists today with 50% of hetero.ual couples,
who end up divorced, anyway.
The bottomline is that the States should stay out of the marriage
business. Let churches take care of that for those who want it. What
States should offer are domestic partnerships. Oh, and no welfare
whatsoever!
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