Re: False Issue

"Kirk Lawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Get the Government *out* of the Marriage Business entirely, either gay
> or strait.  Why should strait couples need the Government's permission
> to have a union?

Managing your domestic life is incredibly profitable for the government. As
a 'justice' industry, it must be right up there with traffic fines as far as
generating money for the State.
After seizing ecclesiastical authority to regulate marriage in the first
place, government has made divorce ever easier. That gives them the
authority to regulate child custody, dispose of property, force debt- all
kinds of things that governments like to do.
As contracts go, 'marriage' is pretty descriptive. If homosexuals, or
polyamorists, or any other 'denied' class want to make a contract- they
should make another sort of contract. The benefit from the contract only
affects their relationship with the Government in any case; taxes, insurance
liability, power of attorney, government benefits. Let them make their
contract with the Government; a civil arrangement having nothing to do with
an association with a Sacrament in somebody's religion.
That's like getting pissed because Jewish cemeteries don't allow other
religions to be buried there, or allowing just anything to be called
'kosher'.
Affronting religions for no other reason than to tweak a hostile response
from people who are supposed to be 'forgiving' and 'tolerant' is a joke.

Chas