| It's right there in your face, and yet most people seem to tune it out. The thing is, marriage per se is one of those religious-type things. Which means that you can have a perfectly legit religious-type argument about whether it applies to gay couples. But, I hear you saying, that argument has no place in our law-making processes! And you're right... but in the same vein, respecting marriage of any sort has no place in the law. And that's where we get stuck. We let it in, but almost nobody is willing to ponder the obvious solution, taking it back out again. The law can respect family units, parents, stable partnerships, whatever. But to legally recognize marriage, gay or otherwise, is a problem in and of itself.
By the way, I'm not singling you out at all, Illiad. You just provided the TLP that sparked my thinking processes ;)
P.P.S. I just realized the other day, I no longer live in Santorum-land. But I also realized that I have no idea who's theoretically representing me anymore ;) |
